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Fusion Unit 5
Energy 5th grade science Unit 5 Fusion
Term | Definition |
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Energy | The ability to cause changes in matter |
Potential Energy | Energy that an object has because of its position or its condition |
Kinetic Energy | The energy an object has because of motion |
Electrical Energy | Energy that comes from electric current |
Mechanical Energy | The total potential and kinetic energy of an object |
Chemical Energy | Energy that can be released by a chemical reaction |
Thermal Energy | The total amount of kinetic energy of the particles in a substance |
Temperature | The measure of the average energy of motion of particles of matter, which we feel as how hot or cold something is |
Heat | The energy that moves between objects of different temperatures |
Static Electricity | The buildup of electric charges on an object |
Electric Current | The flow of electric charges along a path |
Conductor | A material that lets heat or electricity travel through it easily |
Insulator | A material that does not let heat or electricity move through it easily |
Circuit | A path along which electric charges can flow |
Series Circuit | An electric circuit in which the electrical charges have only one path to follow |
Parallel Circuit | An electric circuit that has more than one path for the electric charges to follow |