Energy Transfers

Mark eats a hamburger and then goes on a bike ride 2 hours later.

• Chemical --> Mechanical

• Chemical --> Potential

• Mechanical --> Electrical

• Kinetic --> Sound

Cindy plugs in her phone charger, connects it to her phone and her phone turns on.

• Light --> Sound

• Electrical --> Light

• Chemical --> Thermal

• Electrical --> Nuclear

The sun heats up solar panels that are connected to the electrical grid.

• Thermal --> Sound

• Thermal --> Nuclear

• Light --> Kinetic

• Light --> Electrical

Mohammed turns on his electric stove to boil a pot of water.

• Electrical --> Thermal

• Thermal --> Electrical

• Light --> Thermal

• Nuclear --> Thermal

Belle puts gasoline in her car and then drives away.

• Nuclear --> Mechanical

• Mechanical --> Kinetic

• Chemical --> Mechanical

• Chemical --> Potential

Riley's laptop gets warm after using it to play video games for 3 hours.

• Electrical --> Light

• Mechanical --> Thermal

• Chemical --> Kinetic

• Potential --> Kinetic

Grace is on a a swinging pirate ship ride at a theme park.

• Kinetic --> Sound

• Gravitational Potential Energy ---->Kinetic

• Elastic Potential Energy --> Kinetic

• Thermal --> Gravitational

Kira stretches a rubber band back and forth as a fidget.

• Elastic --> Thermal

• Elastic --> Light

• Elastic --> Sound

• Elastic --> Kinetic

A sunflower creates sugar from photosynthesis

• Nuclear --> Chemical

• Light --> Chemical

• Light -->Electrical

• Thermal --> Chemical

Josiah kicks a ball down a steep hill.

• Gravitational Potential Energy ---> Sound

• Gravitational Potential Energy ---> Kinetic

• Kinetic --> Thermal

• Potential --> Light