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Energy Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Energy | The ability to do work or cause change |
| Work | When a FORCE is used to MOVE an object over a distance or cause change. |
| Force | A PUSH or a PULL |
| Chemical Energy | Energy that is stored in the particles of matter (H2O, food, batteries, plants, etc.) |
| Mechanical energy | Energy of motion or moving parts (bicycle, wind turbine, ocean waves, wind, arms and legs) |
| radiant energy | Energy that travels on invisible waves (sunlight (solar energy), heat from fire, x-rays, microwave) etc. |
| Thermal energy | The energy that all matter has because its particles (atoms, molecules) are in motion. |
| Electrical energy | The energy that comes from moving electrons (can be static or current.) |
| Potential energy | Energy that is stored and ready to be used |
| Kinetic energy | Energy that is working or in motion |
| Law of Conservation of Energy | Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be changed (transformed, converted) to a different form or transferred from one object or another. |
| Conserve | .To save. In respect to energy, it means that energy is never created or destroyed, but always stays the same amount, even when it is transferred or transformed. |
| Transfer | .- To move something from one place or one object to another - the same type of energy can passed along from one object to another. |
| Transform or convert | Other words that mean the same thing as the word CHANGE. |
| Heat | The transfer or flow of thermal energy from a warmer object to a cooler object. |