Energy Flashcards
Potential enegry
Enegry waiting to happen
What is energy
Enegry is the ability to dp work
Kinetic enegry
The enegry that moving things have ie a windmill
Heat enegry
Heat is enegry cause it causes things to move eg hot air ballon
Light enegry
Light can move things in a crooks raidiometer or in a solar pannel plants make use light to make food
Sound enegry
If you put your head near a loudspeaker you can feel that the air is being moved by sou d enegry
Electric enegry
The flow of electrons around a circut
chemical enegry
This type of enegry sorted in fuels such as coal and oil and is also in food we eat and in batteries
Nuclear enegry
This enegry is stored in the nucleus of atoms the enegry that comes from the sun
Law of conservation of enegry
Enegry cannot be created or destroyed it can only be change from one form to another
Circuts
A circut is made up of a battery some wires and different types of equipment and can be used to observe enegry conversions
Non renewable sources
A source that will run out
Fossil fuels
Oil turf coal and natural gas
Disadvantage of fossil fuels
They cause pollution and damage to the atmosphere
The sun is a source of all our energy
Heats the oceans and air creating wind currents allows plants to make food
