Energy

Choose the vocabulary word to fill the blank that best reflects the key concepts we learned in Amplify Science.

"A generator ______________ kinetic energy into electricity.

• transfers

• flows

• coverts

• moves

Select the phrase that best completes the statement based on our work in Amplify Science.

"The VSC design problem in this unit is to help the rescue team..."

• give them a hand crank generator.

• find a way to get energy to the batteries in the rescue workers’ electrical devices, even during power outages.

• make new devices for the rescue team.

• complete their missions for them.

For the energy transfer diagram you created on your design for the rescue team in chapter 3, where you are capturing the energy from their bodies. What 2 things should always be the listed in the diagram.

• Generator

• Wires

• Food

• Handcrank

The human powered generator (hand crank generator), the wind turbine (windmill), hydroelectric power plant and (waterfall) all rely on this type of energy to produce electricity.

• potential energy

• solar energy

• human energy

• kinetic energy

Identify 2 out of the 5 human energy harnessing systems we read a text about and annotated in Chapters 2 and 3?

• Back Pack

• Electric Motorcycle

• Roller Skates

• Leg Brace

• Desk Chair