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Question | Answer |
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Electrical energy | energy that an object has because it has charged particles. |
Energy | the ability to cause changes in matter or to make things happen. |
Light energy | energy you can see that moves in waves. |
Sound energy that | caused by things vibrating |
Thermal energy- | the movement of particles causing heat |
Light: | |
Reflection | the bouncing of light from a surface |
Transmitted | the passing of light through objects |
Absorbed | when light |
Refracted occurs when light | bent as it |
Lenses are used to refract or bend light. You can find these in glasses and a microscope. | |
Sound: | |
Vibration | the back and forth movement of an object |
Sound | made up of vibrations in our surroundings that we can hear |
Sound wave | an alternating area of high and low air pressure that transmits energy through a medium such as a solid, liquid or gas |
Motion: | |
Motion | the changing of position |
Inertia | the tendency of a moving object to keep moving or of a still object to stay still |
Force | a push or pull on an object |
Gravity | the force of attraction between objects |
Friction | the force that opposes motion |
Matter: | |
Matter | anything that has mass and takes up space |
Physical properties are things you can observe with your senses | |
Character | tic properties are properties that do not change, such as boiling and melting point |
Conductor a material that energy travels easily or quickly through | |
Mixture | a collection of materials without being joined together, such as chex mix. |
Solution | a type of mixture in which the ingredients are thoroughly mixed together, such as lemonade |
D | solve when a substance separates into particles that are too small to be seen |