ENERGETIC CONNECTIONS

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What Are the Two Main Forms of Energy?

Click on the videos below to learn about each type of energy:

Potential Energy Kinetic Energy

Quiz:Which of the following is an

example of potential energy?

A roller coaster speeding down a hill

A stretched rubber band

Releasing the string on an archer’s bow

An apple falling from a tree

Which of the following is an example of kinetic energy?

A cat sitting on a tree branch

A parked car

Dates hanging from a date tree

A blade of grass moving in the wind

The pendulum below demonstrates kinetic and potential energy.

Pendulum

Key:

KE = kinetic energy

PE = potential energy

Note- the areas between have potential and kinetic energy because they are changing from one energy to the other.

Quiz:

Click the type

of energy the

pendulum has

at the given

points.

KineticPotential Both

KineticPotential Both

KineticPotential Both

The Powerful Sun

The sun is vital for life on earth. It provides us with solar energy. This energy is a result of nuclear reactions.

HEAT + LIGHT = Solar Energy

Quiz:

Choose the three things associated with solar energy:

sound, heat, nuclear reaction

energy, light, motion

heat, light, nuclear reaction

cooking, light, sound

Heat Energy Transfer

There are three ways heat energy is transferred. Click on the titles below to find out more!

ConductionConvectionRadiation

Go to Quiz 2 Go to Quiz 3

Quiz 1:

What kind of heat energy transfer is pictured below?

Choose One:

Convection

Conduction

Radiation

Quiz 2:

What kind of heat energy transfer is pictured below? Choose One:

Convection

Conduction

Radiation

Quiz 3:

What kind of heat energy transfer is pictured below? Choose One:

Convection

Conduction

Radiation

Filling a hot air balloon

Heat TransferHeat is transferred from warm to cool places. The heat energy in this cup of hot coffee moves from the hot coffee to the cup, to the counter it’s sitting on and also to the cool air surrounding it. This transfer of heat causes the coffee to cool down.

Quiz:

What is the correct order of heat transfer for this situation?

Fire to air to pizza to grill

Pizza to grill to air to fire

Air to fire to grill to pizza

Fire to grill to pizza to air

Phases of Matter

Quiz:

What must be added or taken away from a phase of matter for it

to change to a different phase of

matter?

CLICK!

Heat Energy!