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What is energy?
The ability to do work or cause change.
What are the two main types of energy?
Kinetic & Potential.
What is kinetic energy?
Energy of movement.
Can you give an example of kinetic energy?
A rolling ball, a running person
What is potential energy?
Stored energy
Can you give an example of potential energy?
A battery, a stretched rubber band, food in your lunchbox.
Give an example of energy.
Heat, light, electrical, sound, chemical, gravitational, elastic, nuclear.
Can you give an example of something that produces heat energy?
A fire, the sun, a laptop/device turned on.
Can you give an example of something that produces light energy?
A lamp, a torch, a light bulb
Can you name something that makes or gives electrical energy?
Solar panels, nuclear power plant, wind turbines, power station
Give an example of something that produces sound energy.
A speaker or radio, a guitar, a person speaking or singing, a car engine.
Give an example of something that produces chemical energy.
Food, Batteries, Fuel, Wood, Coal or Gas.
Name one place energy can come from.
The sun, batteries, power stations, food, fuel.
What do we get the energy from to move and think?
Food.
Which 2 types of energy come from the sun?
Light & heat.
Which of these is an example of kinetic energy?
A rolling ball.
A stretched rubber band.
A rock sitting still.
A battery.
