Energy Unit Vocabulary

What is energy?

• the rate at which someone or something is able to move or operate.

• the capture of energy produced at one time for use at a later time.

• the work that a certain force (gravitational, electromagnetic, etc) can do.

• the movement of energy from place to place.

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What is stored energy?

• the work that a certain force (gravitational, electromagnetic, etc) can do.

• the capture of energy produced at one time for use at a later time.

• the rate at which someone or something is able to move or operate.

• - the movement of energy from place to place.

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What is speed?

• the movement of energy from place to place.

• the work that a certain force (gravitational, electromagnetic, etc) can do.

• the capture of energy produced at one time for use at a later time.

• the rate at which someone or something is able to move or operate.

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What is transfer of energy?

• the movement of energy from place to place.

• the capture of energy produced at one time for use at a later time.

• the rate at which someone or something is able to move or operate.

• the work that a certain force (gravitational, electromagnetic, etc) can do.

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What is force?

• the work that a certain force (gravitational, electromagnetic, etc) can do.

• strength or energy caused by physical action or movement.

• change of location or position of an object with respect to time.

• to come together with solid or direct impact

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What is motion?

• change of location or position of an object with respect to time.

• strength or energy caused by physical action or movement.

• the movement of energy from place to place.

• to come together with solid or direct impact.

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What does it mean to collide?

• the sudden, forceful coming together of two bodies making direct contact.

• change of location or position of an object with respect to time.

• to come together with solid or direct impact.

• the rate at which someone or something is able to move or operate.

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What is a collision?

• change of location or position of an object with respect to time.

• the sudden, forceful coming together of two bodies making direct contact.

• to come together with solid or direct impact.

• strength or energy caused by physical action or movement.

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What is sound?

• strength or energy caused by physical action or movement.

• a type of energy that makes it possible for us to see the world around us.

• vibration in air and water that stimulate the nerves inside the ears to create the sensation of hearing.

• the form of energy that is transferred between systems or objects with different temperatures.

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What is light?

• vibration in air and water that stimulate the nerves inside the ears to create the sensation of hearing.

• a type of energy that makes it possible for us to see the world around us.

• the form of energy that is transferred between systems or objects with different temperatures.

• energy in the form of heat.