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MS-PS3-1: Describe the relationships of kinetic energy to the mass of an object and to the speed of an object.
MS-PS3-5: When the kinetic energy of an object changes, energy is transferred to or from the object.
Vocabulary: energy, kinetic energy, potential energy, electrical energy
Google Doc - put all the answers in the Google Doc and share with your teacher or use the worksheet in your teacher's Google Classroom.
1. Read the article and answer the following questions.
a. What are the seven forms of energy?
b. What are the two types of energy?
c. Energy sources are divided into two groups, what are they?
d. Look at the U.S. energy consumption by energy source chart (2014). What two types of energy are used most by the U.S. population?
e. Using the same chart, how much renewable energy do we use?
2. Watch the Edpuzzle video and answer the questions
3. Watch the BrainPop and answer the following questions.
a. What are the different forms of energy
b. What is the difference between kinetic energy and potential energy?
c. BrainPop: Energy Skate Park Basics (make sure you log-in the play the game)
4. Watch the video and answer the Edpuzzle questions.
5. Which direction does energy always flow?
6. Fling the Teacher: Energy
Complete the activity and answer the following questions.
a. Stored energy is ___________.
b. Which of the following have potential energy?
c. What happens when the book being held five feet off the ground is released?
d. Which of the following does not store chemical potential energy?
e. Fossil Fuels and biomass store chemical energy that can be released and transformed into other ______.
7. Interactive: Energy transfer in a Roller Coaster.
a. Write down three other objects that have mechanical energy
b. Roller coasters are designed to run on two basic scientific principles: 1) _________ and 2) the ___________ of energy.
c. After watching the video, write one to two sentences explaining what causes a roller coaster to move.
d. As the cars start to descend (fall) down the track, the _________ energy converts (changes) into __________ energy.
e. At what point on the roller coaster ride is there the greatest amount of potential energy? At this same spot, what is the amount of kinetic energy? Write one to two sentences to explain your answers.
f. Name one factor that determines how much potential energy there is in a roller coaster ride.
g. Name one factor that affects how much total energy roller coaster cars contain during a ride.
h. How are the different types of energy present in a roller coaster ride measured? How does energy change form during a roller coaster ride?