Energy and Waves Vocabulary

Ability to do work or cause change

• electricity

• energy

• static electricity

• circuit

wave changes direction as it pases from one medium to another; bending waves

• repel

• echo

• reflection

• refraction

disturbance that transfers energy from place to place

• echo

• electricity

• current

• wave

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when one form of energy changes into another

• energy transformation

• chemical energy

• battery

• static electricity

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movement of atoms in something that causes heat

• chemical energy

• nuclear energy

• thermal energy

• electromagnetic energy

occurs when incoming light energy is converted to heat in the object

• repel

• absorption

• thermal energy

• reflection

reflected sound wave

• echo

• energy

• medium

• absorption

push away by force

• attract

• repel

• absorb

• reflect

flow of electrical power or charge

• electricity

• electromagnetic energy

• chemical energy

• mechanical energy

complete path that an electric current travels along

• energy transformation

• magnet

• circuit

• poles