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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 and object over a distance. |
| Chemical energy | Energy that is stored in the particles of matter (H20,food,batteries,plants,etc.) |
| Mechanical energy | Energy of motion or moving parts ( bike, wind turbine, ocean waves, 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 matters 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 |
| Converse | To save. In respect to energy, it means that energy is never created or destroyed,but always stays the same amount, even when its 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. |
| Force | A push or a pull |