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College Biology - Chapters 5-7 - Witters
How Cells Work: Energy, Respiration, Photosynthesis
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Biology
12th Grade
05/13/2010

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Conservation of Energy
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Energy can't be destroyed, just converted.
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Kinetic Energy
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The energy of motion or doing.
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Potential Energy
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The energy of location or arrangement
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Entropy
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The tendency of everything to move towards disorder.
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Chemical Energy
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Just kinetic and potential energy of atoms, where the chemical bond is potential.
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Why is it that to increase order more disorder must be created?
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Heat is always lost in energy transfers when building atoms.
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