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Energy Vocab

TermDefinition
Potential Energy! Sorted Energy.
Kinetic Energy! Energy in motion or being used.
Motion Energy! The energy present in moving things such as the wind,a racing car, or soaring ball.
Chemical Energy! Chemical Energy is the energy stored in materials such as food,batteries,TNT,and 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 (a rubber band or spring.)
Heat Energy! The energy or substance has a result of its temperature. 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 Energy! Another word for heat.
Temperature! Measurement of the amount of thermal energy an object contains.
Friction! The force resisting relative motion of surfaces that touch. When 2 objects rub against each other in opposite directions, it creates friction.
Molecule! The smallest particle into which an element or compound can be divided without changing its properties.
Radiation! Where heat energy is traveling by invisible waves through space from the source. (sun)
Convention! The transfer of heat by a moving gas or liquid. (steam)
Conduction! Heat moving through a solid.(stove top)
Insulators! Substance that do not readily allow heat to pass through them.
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