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Energy Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Energy | The ability to do work or cause change |
Work | When a FORCE is used to MOVE an object over a distance or cause change |
Force | A PUSH or PULL |
Chemical energy | Energy that is stored in particles of matter ( H20, food, batteries, plants, etc) |
Mechanical energy | ( bicycle, wind turbine, ocean waves, wind, arms and legs) |
Radiant energy | Energy that travels on invisible waves ( sunlight (solar energy), heat from fire, x-rays, microwave ) ete. |
Thermal energy | The energy that all matter has because its particles (atoms, molecules) are in motion |
Electrical energy | The energy that comes from moving electrons (can be static or current) |
Potential energy | Energy that is stored and ready to be used |
Kinetic energy | Energy that is working or in motion |
Law of conservation of energy | Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be changed (transformed, converted) to a different form or transformed from one object or another |
Conserve | To save. In respect to energy, it means that energy is never created or destroyed, but always stays the same amount, even when it is transformed or transferred |
Transfer | To move something from one place or one object to another - the same type of energy can passed along from one object to another. |
Transform or Convert | Other words that mean the same thing as the word CHANGE. |
Heat | The transfer or flow of thermal energy from a object to a cooler object |