Energy Vocabulary

Stored

• Elastic Potential Energy

• Solar Energy

• Potential Energy

• Atoms

Energy changing from one form to another.

• Thermal Energy

• Mechanical Potential Energy

• Chemical Energy

• Energy Transformation

Ability to cause change or do work

• Atoms

• Energy

• Heat Energy

• Kinetic

Energy an object has because it is being stretched

• Elastic Potential Energy

• Gravitational Potential Energy

• Electrical Energy

• Energy

Smallest particles of matter

• Atoms

• Potential

• Solar Energy

• Chemical energy

Energy from the sun

• Chemical Energy

• Heat Energy

• Radiant Energy

• Solar Energy

Energy an object has because of its height above the ground.

• Mechanical kinetic energy

• Gravitational potential energy

• Law of conservation of energy

• .Thermal Energy

Energy stored within the chemical bonds in matter

• Electrical energy

• Chemical energy

• Mechanical potential energy

• Thermal Energy

Energy an object has because it is in motion.

• Law of conservation of energy

• Heat energy

• Mechanical kinetic energy

• Elastic potential energy

Energy associated with the motion of the particles in a substance.

• Energy

• Kinetic

• Thermal Energy

• Energy transformation