Understanding Energy Concepts

What does the Law of Conservation of Energy state?

• New energy is never created and old energy is never destroyed

• Energy is always created and destroyed

• Energy can be created but not destroyed

• Energy can not be created but it can be destroyed

What are Renewable Resources?

• Resources that can't easily be replaced

• Resources found in the earth

• Resources that are easily replaced

What is Potential Energy?

• Something has the energy to move or grow

• Something in motion

• Energy that has been created or destroyed

What is Kinetic Energy?

• The energy of objects that CAN move

• Energy being created

• Energy being destroyed

• The energy of objects that ARE moving

What is the speed of light waves compared to other things?

• Faster than Superman

• Faster than a locomotive

• Faster than everything

• Faster than a jet

What allows light in, but does not allow it to escape?

• Galaxy

• Blue Hole

• Black Hole

• Spiral

What is white light made up of?

• Blackness

• Clearness

• Yellow and Red

• Every color of the rainbow

What do solar panels do?

• They change sunlight or solar light into mechanical light

• They transform sunlight or solar energy into potential energy

• They transform sunlight or solar energy into electricity

• They turn electricity into sunlight

Who invented the light bulb?

• Thomas Jefferson

• Thomas Edison

• Thomas Hanks

What are electrons?

• Tiny pieces of matter that are too small to see that move around the nucleus of an atom, and they can move from one atom to another.

• Tiny pieces of matter that are trapped inside of an atom that never move