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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 of matter (h20,food,batteries,plants etc |
| mechanical energy | energy of motion or moving parts (bicycle wind turbine ocean waves wind and arms and legs |
| radiant energy | energy that travles on invisible waves (sunlight,solar energy , heat from fire x rays microwwave, |
| thermal energy | the energy that all matter has because its particals(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 distroid ,but it can be changed (transformed convert) to a differant form of transferred from one object or another |
| conserve | to save in respect to energy it means that energy is never created or destroid but always stays the same ammount even when it is transferdor trans formed |
| transfer | to move somthing from one plaace to another-the same type of enery can passed along from one ovject to another |
| transform or convert | other words that mean the same thing as the word change heat -the transfer or flow of termal energy from a warmer object to a cooler object |
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