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Science Chapter 5
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| potential energy | energy that is stored |
| kinetic | the energy of motion |
| conservation of motion | a principal in science: energy cannot be created or destroyed |
| force | the push or pull of one object on another |
| work | the result of a force applied to an object, causing it to move |
| thermal energy | the energy associated with the random motion of particles in matter |
| temperature | a measure of how much thermal energy is in matter |
| heat | the transfer of thermal energy from one object to another |
| conduction | the transfer of thermal energy through solids |
| convection | the transfer of thermal energy through liquids or gases |
| conductor | a type of material that promotes the transfer of thermal energy |
| insulator | a type of matter that slows down the transfer of thermal energy |