midterm science test

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What is energy in motion called?

Back

Kinetic energy

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What are chemical, nuclear, gravitational, and elastic energies forms of?

Back

Potential energy because they are all stored.

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What type of energy transformation occurs when digesting food?

Back

Chemical to mechanical/thermal.

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What type of energy is light an example of?

Back

Kinetic energy.

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Describe the type of energy transformation that occurs as you use a bow and arrow.

Back

Kinetic to potential to sound/thermal; elastic to mechanical.

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What is potential energy?

Back

Energy stored in an object due to its position or state.

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What is kinetic energy?

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Energy an object possesses due to its motion.

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What is the law of conservation of energy?

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Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another.

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What is thermal energy?

Back

Energy that comes from the temperature of matter; it is the total energy of all the particles in an object.

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What is mechanical energy?

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The sum of potential and kinetic energy in an object that is used to do work.