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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 (H20, 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, mircowave) |
| 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 to a different form of 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. |