Energy Transfer and Conservation

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Movement of energy from one system to another.

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Energy Transfer

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Scientific law stating that energy can be neither created nor destroyed but just changes form

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Law of Conservation of Energy

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A form of energy that is made by vibrations and requires a medium (air, water, or solids) to travel

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Sound Energy

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A group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements forming a complex whole

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System

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The total kinetic (motion) energy of the tiny particles that make up matter; the faster the particles move, the warmer the matter becomes

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Thermal Energy

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Transfer of thermal energy that occurs in solids, liquids, and gases when two substances of different temperatures touch

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Conduction

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Heat transfer caused by the rising of hotter, less dense fluids and the falling of cooler, denser fluids

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Convection

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A circular movement of fluids caused by the rising of hotter, less dense fluid and the falling of cooler, denser fluid

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Convection Current

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Energy transferred between two objects of different temperatures that moves continually in a predictable pattern, from a warmer site to a cooler site, until all sites have reached the same temperature

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Heat

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The thermal energy exchange between two objects of different temperatures; energy moves in a predictable pattern from warmer sites to cooler sites until all sites have reached the same temperature

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Heat Transfer