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To do this assignment, you will need to go to the following website:  Atomic 2000, Colorado.  

Answer the following questions using the website above:

1.  When we feel hot and cold, what are we detecting?

2.  Use the temperature control bar in the animation to answer the following:

    a)  Are all the "balls" in the animation moving at the same speed?

    b)  If they are not moving at the same speed, what does that tell you, or show you?

    c)  What happens when you slide the temperature control bar all the way to the left?

    d)  What temperature would that be in Celsius?  What temperature would that be in Kelvin?

3.  What is "absolute zero?"

4.  Why does absolute zero not exist naturally?

Brainpop:  Temperature

1.  What is temperature?

2.  What is "cold?"

3.  When you say you "feel cold," what are you really feeling or detecting?

4.  What temperature does water freeze and boil at in:

    a)  Celsius

    b)  Fahrenheit

    c)  Kelvin

5.  How do thermometers work?

Brainpop:  Forms of energy

1.  What is energy?

2.  Name two kinds of energy?

3.  Briefly define both types of energy.

4.  Give at least 3 examples of each kind of energy.

Brainpop:  Kinetic Energy

1.  What is energy?

2.  What is potential energy?

3.  How can you change the amount of potential energy?

4.  What is kinetic energy?

5.  What factors affect the amount of kinetic energy an object has?

6.  How can kinetic energy be transferred?

7.  Give an example of a use of kinetic energy.

8.  Can we "make" energy?

Brainpop:  Potential Energy

1.  What is potential energy?

2.  When does a skier have potential energy?

3.  What factors affect the amount of potential energy?

Brainpop:  Energy sources

1.  If energy cannot be "made," how do we get energy?

2.  How do generators work?

3.  How is energy "generation" different than energy "creation?"

4.  List at least 7 kinetic energy sources that can be used to power generators.