Forms of Energy...

Question 1

DEFINITION: Kinetic Energy

Answer 1

Energy possessed by moving objects!!

Question 2

DEFINITION: Gravitational Potential Energy

Answer 2

A form of stored energy, which has POTENTIAL energy because it CAN fall.

Question 3

DEFINITION: Chemical Potential Energy

Answer 3

Another form of stored energy - energy stored in the chemical bonds of all substances.

Question 4

DEFINITION: Elastic Potential Energy

Answer 4

Energy due to charged particles! Possessed by things that are compressed, twisted, flexed or wound up.

Question 5

DEFINITION: Electrical Energy

Answer 5

Energy due to charged particles.

Question 6

DEFINITION: Sound Energy

Answer 6

Energy which travels through matter by compression waves.

Question 7

DEFINITION: Heat Energy

Answer 7

Energy which matter possesses because of the movement of particles in matter.

Question 8

DEFINITION: Light Energy

Answer 8

A form of electromagnetic energy. (And this is probably extensive, but it’s got to do with small packets of energy - photons.)

Question 9

DEFINITION: Nuclear Energy

Answer 9

Energy released when the structure of atoms is changed by being split or fused together.

Question 10

DEFINITION: Potential Energy (general meaning!)

Answer 10

The stored energy in an object due to its position, properties, and forces acting on it.