ENERGY
1. List several types of energy and give an example of each.
2. Describe how energy can be transferred by radiation, conduction, and convection and give examples of each
3. Define The Law of Conservation of Energy
4. Describe what happens to useful energy during an energy transfer.
5. Explain what happens to energy when it is no longer useful.
6. List ways you use energy in your life
7. Explain the difference between potential and kinetic energy.
8. Describe how to change energy from potential to kinetic.
9. Explain the difference between renewable and nonrenewable resources
10. Explain how and where fossil fuels are created and list advantages and disadvantages of their use
11. Explain where almost all energy on our planet originates
12. Describe how to measure the various forms of energy that come from the Sun.
13. Draw a food chain and food web to illustrate energy flow in an ecosystem
14. Describe in relative terms how much useful energy exists at each level of the food chain
Describe the processes by which thermal energy tends to flow from a system of higher temperature to a system of lower temperature
15. Describe temperature change in terms of the movement of atoms
WAVES
1. Explain happens to the frequency of a wave as the wavelength becomes shorter
2. Explain what happens to a wave as you add energy to it.
3. List some causes and effects of waves.
4. Describe ways to measure the frequency of waves.
5. Describe intensity of some common waves.
6. Describe the characteristics, effects, and common uses of ultraviolet, visible and infrared light.
7. Exlain the movement of sound in a vacuum as well as several other media
8. Label the parts of a wave (crest, trough, wavelength, amplitude).
9. Explain what causes the colors of visible light.
10. Explain what determines the pitch of sound.
11. some technological devices that use wave energy.
Electricity and Magnetism
1. Draw and describe a simple electromagnet and explain how it uses both electrical force and a magnetic force.
2. Describe the difference between parallel and series circuits.
3. Describe how like poles of the magnet (two north poles or two south poles) will repel and opposite poles (north and south) will attract
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