MECHANICAL: Energy Words

the ability to do work/make a change

• energy
• law of conservation of energy
• temperature
• convection

the idea that all energy moves from one object to another and cannot be created nor destroyed

• law of the conservation of energy
• energy
• thermal energy
• kinetic energy

energy of motion

• kinetic energy
• potential energy
• thermal energy
• temperature

energy contained inside something that could possible move

• kinetic energy
• potential energy
• thermal energy
• heat

energy that involves the movement of particles within an object

• potential energy
• kinetic energy
• thermal energy
• light energy

measure of thermal energy

• heat
• temperature
• size
• weight

an object's stored energy due to its position

• nuclear energy
• sound energy
• kinetic energy
• potential energy

Energy cannot be created or destroyed. it can only change forms.

• thermal energy
• fusion
• Law of conservation of energy
• electrical energy

energy stored in an object as the result of its position or height

• gravitational potential energy
• elastic potential energy
• chemical potential energy
• fission

energy stored in materials as the result of their stretching or compressing

• electromagnetic energy
• chemical potential energy
• gravitational potential energy
• elastic potential energy