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Energy
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Science
4th Grade
09/30/2014

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What two types of energy travel in waves?
Definition
Sound and Light
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What is a light year?
Definition
The distance that light can travel in one year
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What is light energy?
Definition
Light energy is an energy that travels in straight lines.  You cannot see ultraviolet and infrared light. It is the fastest traveling energy.
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How fast does light travel?
Definition
It travels over 186,000 miles a second, and 5.8 trillion miles a year
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What is sound energy?
Definition
Sound energy comes from vibrating matter.  It travels through matter.
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What is solar energy?
Definition
Energy from the sun.
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What is nuclear energy?
Definition
Nuclear energy is breaking a nucleus into smaller pieces to create energy.  Einstein discovered how to do this.
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What is non renewable energy?
Definition
Energy that cannot be replaced.  Fossil fuels are non renewable. Sun is a renewable resource.
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What is convection heat?
Definition
Heat moving in a closed system.  Examples include lava lamp, oven, pot of soup
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What is vibration?
Definition
Back and forth movement of an object
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What is radiation?
Definition
Movement out from a heated object like the sun or heat from a fireplace
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What is conduction?
Definition
Heated transferred from a heated surface that is touching another to a cooler surface.
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Which forms of energy are produced by a light bulb?
Definition
Heat and light
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What did Thomas Edison invent?
Definition
Motion picture camera
light bulb
first voice recordings
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Put the energy chain in order
Definition
Sun- plants- animals- people
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Energy can only be....
Definition
changed or transformed
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What type of energy would be used when using a hammer?
Definition
mechanical energy
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What type of energy is use in batteries?
Definition
chemical energy
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What type of energy is used in computers?
Definition
electrical energy
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What are examples or renewable resources
Definition
wind, sun, air, water, wood, leather
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What is the source of most energy on the Earth?
Definition
the sun
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What are some examples of non renewable resources?
Definition
things that come from fossil fuels like: coal, oil, plastics, gas
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