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Energy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ability to do work | Energy |
| Energy of motion | Kinetic Energy |
| Stored energy that results from the position or shape of an object | Potential Energy |
| Potential energy related to an object's height | Gravitational potential energy |
| Potential energy associated with objects that can be stretched or compressed | Elastic potential energy |
| Form of energy associated with the position and motion of an object | Mechanical energy |
| total potential and kinetic energy; heat | Thermal energy |
| energy of electric charges; lightning, static electricity | Electrical energy |
| potential energy stored in chemical bonds of any substance including food and cells | Chemical energy |
| type of potential energy stored in the nucleus of an atom | Nuclear energy |
| energy that travels in waves such as light and other forms of radiation | Electromagnetic energy |
| a change from one form of energy to another | Energy transformation |
| Energy cannot be created or destroyed instead it is transformed or transferred into another energy form | Law of conservation of energy |
| anything that has mass and takes up space | Matter |
| a material such as coal, petroleum, or natural gas, that forms over millions of years from the remains of ancient plants and animals; burned to release chemical energy | Fossil Fuels |
| process of burning fossil fuels to produce thermal energy | process of burning fossil fuels to produce thermal energy |
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