Energy

Question 1

Electrical Energy

Answer 1

The energy made available by the flow of electric charge.

Question 2

Gravitational potential energy

Answer 2

Energy stored in something.

Question 3

Chemical Energy

Answer 3

Potential energy derived from chemical reactions.

Question 4

Elastic potential energy

Answer 4

Describes a material that is able to return to its original size after being stretched.

Question 5

Nuclear Energy

Answer 5

The energy stored in atoms, the tiny particles that make up all subsctances.

Question 6

Efficiency

Answer 6

The fraction of energy supplied to a device as useful energy.

Question 7

Law Conservation of Energy

Answer 7

A law that states that energy cannot be made or lost.

Question 8

Conductor

Answer 8

Transfer of heat thought collisions between particles.

Question 9

Insulator

Answer 9

A material that is a poor conductor of heat.

Question 10

Convection

Answer 10

Transfer of heat through the flow of particles.

Question 11

Radiation

Answer 11

A method of heat transfer that does not require particles to transfer heat from one place to another.

Question 12

Radiant Heat

Answer 12

Heat transferred by radiation, as from the sun to the earth.

Question 13

Reflected

Answer 13

Bounced off.

Question 14

Transmitted

Answer 14

Passed through something, such as light or sound passing through air.

Question 15

Absorbed

Answer 15

Taken in.

Question 16

Deciduous

Answer 16

Describes plant that lose their leaves during autumn and winter.

Question 17

Luminous

Answer 17

Releasing its own light.

Question 18

Incandescent

Answer 18

Describes objects that emit when they are hot.

Question 19

Bioluminescent

Answer 19

Describes living things that release light energy.

Question 20

Non luminous

Answer 20

Describes objects that do not emit their own light but can be seen by reflected light.

Question 21

Scattered

Answer 21

Well spread out.

Question 22

Vibrations

Answer 22

Repeated fast, back and forth movements.

Question 23

Compression

Answer 23

The process of pushing a metal into its self.

Question 24

Rarefactions

Answer 24

In sound waves the layers of particles that are spread apart.

Question 25

Sound waves

Answer 25

Vibrations of particles in the air.

Question 26

Pitch

Answer 26

Highness or lowness of a sound.

Question 27

Reverberation

Answer 27

Longer lasting sound.