Science Vocab Topic 3 Lessons 1 & 2

The ability to do work or cause change

• Energy

• Kinetic energy

• Work

• Motion

The state in which one object’s distance from another is changing

• Motion

• Energy

• Kinetic energy

• Power

Force exerted on an object that causes it to move

• Work

• Power

• Kinetic Energy

• Force

The rate at which one form of energy is transformed into another

• Power

• Force

• Energy

• Kinetic energy

The greatest possible amount

• Maximum

• Potential Energy

• Kinetic Energy

• The large law

Energy that an object has due to its motion

• Kinetic energy

• Potential energy

• Motion

• Force

The energy an object had because of its position; also the internal stored energy of an object, such a energy stored in chemical bonds

• Potential energy

• Work

• Kinetic energy

• Atom

Potential energy that depends on the height of an object

• Gravitational potential energy

• Elastic potential energy

• kinetic energy

• Potential energy

The energy of stretched or compressed objects

• Potential energy

• Kinetic energy

• Elastic potential energy

• Gravitational potential energy

Indicates a good quality or power; through the force of it

• Virtue

• Doctrine

• Potential energy

• Message