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Unit 5 Energy Vocab
Science vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Energy | The ability to do work or to cause a change |
| LOCOE | energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only change forms or be transferred |
| open system | a system that continuously interacts with it's surroundings |
| Closed system | a system that can exchange energy, but not matter, with it's surroundings |
| electricity | the continuous flow of electric charges through the conductor |
| electron | a negatively charged particle located outside the atom's nucleus |
| electric circuit | a closed path through which an electric current flows or may flow |
| electric current | a flow of electric charge |
| voltage | the difference in electrical potential energy between two places in a circut |
| resistance | the measurement of how difficult it is for charges to flow through a material |
| electromagnetic spectrum | the range of seven types of waves that carry energy as electricity and magnitism |
| medium | a substance in which a wave travels |
| wave speed | the speed of a wave is determined when both frequency and wavelength are known. |
| wave | a disturbance that transfer energy from one place to another without requiring matter to move the entire distance |
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