Energy and Forces Vocabulary

To push something away

• Attract
• Repel
• Magnet
• Magnatism

To pull something closer

• attract
• repel
• poles
• magnet

Opposite poles or charges do what?

• repel
• attract

Same poles or charges do what?

• repel
• attract

A force that pushes and pulls certain metals

• metal
• magnet
• magnetism
• force

a push or pull

• force
• magnetism
• attract
• repel

attraction or repulsion between magnetic poles

• magnetic
• electric
• frictional
• gravitational

the force that two surfaces exert on each other when they rub against one another

• magnetic
• electric
• frictional
• gravitational

 attractive or repulsive interaction between any two charged objects

• magnetic
• electric
• frictional
• gravitational

a force that makes an object pull toward the earth

• magnetic
• electric
• frictional
• gravitational