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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 c hange. |
| force | A PUSH or PULL |
| chemical energy | Energy that is stored in 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 that all mattter has because it particles (atoms, moecules) are in motion. |
| electrical energy | The energy the that comes from moving(can static or current) |
| potentail energy | Energy that is stored and ready to use. |
| Kinetic energy | Energy that is working or in motion |
| law of conservation | Energy cannot be crative or destroed, but it can be changed (transformed,converted) to a different form or transferred form one object or anthor. |
| Consevre | To save. In respect to energy is never created or destroyed, but always stays the same amount, even when it is transferred or transformed. |
| transfer | to move something form one place or one object to anthor-the same type of energy can passed along form one object to another . |
| Transform or Convert | Other words that mean the same thing as the word CHANGE. |
| Heat | The transfer or flow of theemal energy form a warmer object to a cooler object |