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Unit 4- Energy Uses
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mechanical | Energy from moving parts |
| Law of conservation | Energy is neither created nor destroyed, only transformed from one type of energy to another |
| Light | Radiant energy from the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum that we can detect with our sense of sight |
| Vibration | The rapid movement of particles in a solid, liquid, or gas |
| Electric | Energy of the movement of electrons |
| Explore | to try to understand something by examining it carefully |
| Energy | Needed to do work |
| Sound | Energy you can hear, produced by vibrations as they move through a medium such as air, metal, or water |
| Transform | To change into something else |
| Thermal | Heat energy |