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Energy Vocab.
Term | Definition |
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Potential Energy | Stored energy |
Kinetic Energy | Energy being used |
Motion Energy | the energy present in moving things |
Chemical Energy | The energy stored in materials like batteres |
Gravitational Energy | The energy stored in objects that are in a position to fall |
Elastic Energy | The energy stored stretchy things when stretched or springy things when compressed |
Heat Energy | The energy a substance has a result of its temperature Higher temp., more 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 | Another word for heat |
Temperature | Measurment of the amount of heat energy an object has |
Friction | When two objects rub against each other in opposite directions , it creates friction |
Molecle | 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 |
Convection | The transfer of heat by a moving gas or liquid |
Conduction | Heat moving through a solid |
Insulators | Substances that don't allow heat to pass through them |