This screen will disappear in 3 minutes. Seconds Remaining. Living organisms, like you, get their energy to move and do work from eating food. Trace the energy transformations that occur from the original radiant solar energy used by plants to mechanical energy in living systems.

Plants convert the radiant solar energy to chemical energy through the process of photosynthesis. The plant is harvested using mechanical energy. The machine that does the harvesting converts chemical energy into mechanical energy. Transportation and processing will also involve the conversion of chemical energy to mechanical energy. When people eat food, their bodies convert the chemical energy stored in food into mechanical energy.

Seconds Left: Describe potential & kinetic energy

Potential Energy: Stored energy Amount of useable energy within a body at rest Kinetic Energy: Energy that a body has as a result of its motion.

Seconds Left: A basketball is thrown in the air by a student. – Describe the relationship of kinetic and potential energy within the basketball as it: – leaves the student's hands, at point A – is halfway to the top of the arc, at point B – is at the top of the arc, at point C – is halfway down the other side, at point D

Kinetic and potential energy are converted into one another throughout the path of the ball. Before the player releases the ball, the ball has potential energy but no kinetic energy because it is not moving. When the player releases the ball at point A, he sets it into motion by exerting a force, thereby giving it kinetic energy. As the ball rises to point B, the ball slows down. In the process, kinetic energy is converted into potential energy. When the ball reaches the top of its path at point C, much of the kinetic energy has been converted into potential energy. This is the point where the ball has the most potential energy. As the ball falls to point D, the ball speeds up, and its height decreases. As a result, potential energy is converted back into kinetic energy.

Define: Wavelength, Frequency, Amplitude Seconds Left:

1.Wavelength – 1.In transverse waves – distance between two crests or troughs 2.In longitudinal waves – distance between two compressions or rarefactions 2.Frequency – the number of waves that pass a point in one second 1.Long wavelengths have low frequencies 2.Short wavelengths have high frequencies 3.Amplitude (wave height) – the distance from the middle of a transverse wave to the crest or trough

What is an electromagnetic wave? Seconds Left:

A transverse wave that can travel through space or matter.

Describe visible light Seconds Left:

Light you can see; a small part of the electromagnetic spectrum