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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 pull. |
| Chemical Energy | Energy that is stored in the particles. |
| 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-ray, 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 or transformed. |
| 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 transformed or transferred. |
| 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 Convent | 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. |