Energy Vocabulary

Energy resulting from the flow of charged particles.

• Electrical Energy

• Mechanical Energy

• Light Energy

• Sound Energy

What is needed to do work or cause change

• Refraction

• Energy

• Reflection

• Thermal Energy

Energy that can be measured by a thermometer

• Mechanical Energy

• Light Energy

• Thermal Energy

• Sound Energy

Energy from movement

• Mechanical Energy

• Thermal Energy

• Sound Energy

• Light Energy

Electromagnetic energy that can be sensed by the eye

• Thermal energy

• Electrical Energy

• Sound Energy

• Light Energy

Energy that travels as waves through the air or water and vibrates the eardrum upon contact.

• Thermal Energy

• Sound Energy

• Mechanical Energy

• Light Energy

The pathway through which which electrical current flows.

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Electric Circuit

• Electric Current

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

• Insulator

• Refraction

• Reflection

• Conductor

The flow of electricity around a circuit.

• Electric Current

• Electric Circuit

• Reflection

• Energy

Energy waves bouncing off the surface of an object. (Mirrors or echoes return energy back to the source.)

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Energy Circuit

• Energy Current