Energy Vocabulary

_________ is a flow of electricity through a conductor.

• electric current
• circuit

_____ is a path through which electric current can flow.

• circuit
• switch

_____is the energy an object has because it is moving.

• Potential energy
• Kinetic energy

_____ is the ability to do work.

• Kinetic energy
• energy

_____ is a device that produces alternating current by spinning an electric coil between poles of a magnet; changes motion into electrical energy.

• generator
• windmill

_____ is a Latin root word meaning "around".

• circum
• circle

_____ is a material through which heat or electricity flows easily.

• conductor
• resistor

_____ is a device that can open of close the path in a circuit.

• switch
• current

_____ is an object in an electrical circuit that resists the flow of electrons.

• conductor
• resistor

______ is the energy that is stored inside an object.

• kinetic energy
• potential energy