Chapter 7

Question 1

What is the capacity to do work?

Answer 1

energy

Question 2

What is the energy of an object that is due to the object’s motion?

Answer 2

kinetic energy

Question 3

What is the energy that an object has because of the position, shape, or condition of the object?

Answer 3

potential energy

Question 4

What is the amount of wok an object can do because of the objects kinetic and potential energies?

Answer 4

mechanical energy

Question 5

What is a change from one form of energy to another?

Answer 5

energy conversion

Question 6

What is a force that opposes motion between two surfaces that are in contact?

Answer 6

friction

Question 7

What is the law that states that energy cannot be created or destroyed but can be changed from one form to another?

Answer 7

law of conservation of energy

Question 8

What is a resource that forms at a rate that is much slower that the rate at which it is consumed?

Answer 8

nonrenewable resource

Question 9

What is a nonrenewable energy resource formed from the remains of organisms that lived long ago?

Answer 9

fossil fuel

Question 10

What is a natural resource that can be replaced at the same rate at which the resource is consumed?

Answer 10

renewable resource