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All About Energy

Watch the Bill Nye video on energy and answer the following questions.

1. What is energy and what can you do with it?


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2. Name the forms of energy that are described in the video (NB – they are all on
the “wheel of energy” half way through the program if you miss any).
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3. What is energy called if it is stored?
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4. What is the name for movement energy?
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5. Complete the diagram to show the energy transformation that happens in the
baking soda rocket.

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6. Complete the diagram to show the energy transformation that happens in the
bowling ball pendulum.

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7. Describe the five ways of generating electricity that are mentioned in the video
and name the type of energy that each starts with.
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8. Why is electrical energy so useful?
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9. What do you have to do to release energy from coal, oil, gas or wood?
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10. Which type of energy do our bodies store and where does it come from?
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11. What are the main forms of energy that our bodies turn the stored energy into?
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12. What percentage of the energy stored in our bodies turns into kinetic energy
when we exercise and what happens to the rest of the energy?
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