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energy vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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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 (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 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 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. |