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Enegry vocab
Term | Definition |
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Potential Energy | Stored energy |
Kenetic Energy | Energy in motion or being used |
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, 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 a substance has as 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 | 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 two 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). |
Convection | The transfer of heat by a moving gas or liquids(steam). |
Conduction | Heat moving through a solid(stove top). |
Insulators | Substances that do not readily allow heat to pass through them. |