Energy Transfer Vocabulary

it makes things happen (the ability to do work)

• batteries

• wind turbine

• energy

• generator

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

energy being moved from one place to another

• energy transfer

• solar cell

• generator

• motion energy

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-3

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

Match the following:

• converts energy of sun into electricity

• batteries

• changes energy from one type to another

• solar cell

• produces electricity by spinning blades

• motion energy

• stores energy; changes form

• wind turbine

• the energy something has due to movement

• generator

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

a machine that uses a chain reaction to carry out a simple task

• batteries

• wind turbine

• Rube Goldberg machine

• energy transfer

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-4

when one object runs into another

• collision

• contact

• stationary object

• Rube Goldberg machine

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-1

when two objects touch each other

• collision

• contact

• energy transfer

• energy

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-1

an object that is not moving

• energy

• contact

• collision

• stationary