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Unit 4- Energy Uses
Term | Definition |
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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 |