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Energy Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Potential Energy | Stored energy. |
| Kinetic Energy | Energy in motion. |
| Motion Energy | The energy present in moving things, such as the wind, a racing car, or a soaring ball. |
| Chemical Energy | The energy stored in materials such as food, batteries, dynamite, gasoline. |
| Gravitational Energy | The energy stored in objects that are in a position to fall (once they fall the type of energy changes.) |
| Elastic Energy | The energy stored in stretchy objects. |
| Heat Energy | The energy a substance has a result of its temperature. Higher temp = more heat energy |
| Light Energy | The energy carried by light rays. |
| Sound Energy | The energy carried by sound waves. |
| Electrical Energy | Energy that electricity provides. |
| Thermal | Another word for heat. |
| Temperature | The measurement of the amount of thermal energy an object contains. |
| Friction | The force resisting relative motion of surfaces that touch. When two objects rub together in opposite directions, friction is created. |
| Molecule | The smallest particle into which an element or compound can be divided , without changing it. |
| Radiation | Where heat energy is traveling by invisible waves through space from the source.(sun) |
| Convection | The transfer of heat by a moving gas or liquid(steam) |
| Conduction | Heat moving through a solid. (stove top) |
| Insulators | Substances that do not readily allow heat to pass through them. |