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Energy Unit Vocabulary
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Science
8th Grade
12/01/2014

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Term

ENERGY

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Definition

The ability to make change or do work

 

 

Example: When a ball rolls it is changing and the person pushing it is doing work.

Term

KINETIC ENERGY

 

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Definition

energy that an object has due to its motion

 

EX: a water fall

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POTENTIAL ENERGY

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Definition

stored energy that results from the position or shape of the object.

 

EX: a person sleeping

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GRAVITATIONAL ENERGY

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Definition

potential energy that depends on the hight of the object

 

EX: A long stick in the ground

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ELASTIC POTENTIAL ENERGY

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Definition

the energy of streached or compressed energy

 

EX: a slinky getting squished or extended

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MECHANICAL ENERGY

 

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kinetic or potential energy assosiated with the motion or position of an object

 

EX: a roller coaster

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THERMAL ENERGY

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the total potential and kinetic of the particles in an object

 

 

EX: rubbing your hands together

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ELECTRICAL ENERGY

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Definition

the energy of electrical charges

 

EX: lightning

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CHEMICAL ENERGY

 

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Definition

the potential energy stored in chemical bonds

 

EX: a battery

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ENERGY TRANSFORMATION

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Definition

the prosses of changing one form of energy to another

 

EX: hydroelectrisity

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NUCULAR ENERGY

 

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the potential energy stored in the nuculus of an atom

 

 

EX: a power plant

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ELECTROMAGNETIC ENERGY

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Definition

the energy of light and other forms of radiation

 

EX: atomic bomb

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LAW OF CONSERVATION OF ENERGY

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the rule that energy cannot be created of destroyed

 

 

EX: water

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FOSSIL FUELS

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Definition
a material such as coal that forms over millions of years from the remains of ancient.
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COMBUSTION

 

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Definition

the prosses of burning a fuel to poduse thermal energy

 

 

EX: fire

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CONDUCTION

 

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Definition

the transfer of heat from one particle to another

 

 

 

EX: a spoon in hot water

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CONVECTION

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Definition

the transfer of heat by movement of currents

 

EX: water in the pacific ocean

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