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energy vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Potenial energy | stored energy |
| kinetic energy | energy in motion |
| Motion energy | the energy present in moving things such as racing car on a soaring ball. |
| Chemical energy | the energy stored in materirals such food ,batteries, dynamite, and gasoline |
| Gravitational energy | postition to fall [once they fall the type of energy falls] |
| Elastic Energy | the energy stored in stretchy objects [a rubber band or spring |
| heat energy | the energy a substance has as a result of its temerature. higher temp= more heat energy |
| light energy | the energy carried by light rays. |
| Electrical energy | the energy that electricity provides. |
| sound energy | the energy carried by sound waves |
| thermal | word for heat |
| temperature | measurment if the amount of thermal energy |
| friction | the force resting relative motion of surfaces that touch when two objects rub agains each other in opposite directions, it creates friction. |
| Molecule | is the smallest partical into which an element or compound can be divided with charging its properties |
| Radiation | where heat energy is traveling by invisible waves through space from the source(the sun). |
| convection | the transfer of heat by a moving gas or liquid |
| conduction | heat moving through a solid |
| insulators | substances that do not really allow heat to pass through them. |