Types of energy
Match the objects with the main type of energy they have:
- Objects
- Someone riding a bicycle
- A lightbulb
- A gas fire
- Loudspeakers
- A plant
- A diver at the edge of a diving board standing still
- A stretched spring
- Types of energy:
- Gravitational potential energy - anything that can fall
- Chemical energy - anything with stored energy released by a chemical reaction
- Light energy - anything that is giving off light (or "luminous")
- Kinetic energy - anything that is moving
- Elastic energy - anything that is stretched or compressed
- Thermal energy - anything that gives off heat
- Sound energy - anything that makes noise
- Answers:
- Someone riding a bicycle – kinetic
- A lightbulb - light
- A gas fire - heat
- Loudspeakers - sound
- A plant - chemical
- A diver at the edge of a diving board standing still – gravitational potential
- A stretched spring - elastic
