Heat and Electricity Vocabulary

The pathway through which electricity flows.

• circuit

• sound

• motion

Material that allows heat or electrical energy to easily flow through it

• circuit

• conductor

• insulator

A change in nature, form, or units

• insulator

• conductor

• conversion

Energy produced by electric charges

• motion

• electrical energy

• energy

Energy created by the movement of electrons

• electricity

• motion

• electrical circuit

The pathway through which electrical current flows

• circuit

• light

• electric circuit

The transfer of energy from one object or material to another or one form to another

• energy transfer

• transpiration

• movement

A force that slows or stops motion when object rub together

• balloon

• energy transfer

• friction

Energy that causes a change in temperature between materials

• heat

• materials

• heat energy

Material through which heat or electricity does not easily flow

• insulator

• conductor

• electrical circuit