Energy Vocabulary

What is energy?

• moving from one place to another

• the power to do things

• the ability to do work/cause change

• doing jumping jacks

What is potential energy?

• The energy that is stored in objects by a certain force

• One of the two types of energy; is stored energy and the energy of position

• One of the two types of energy; moving energy

• the energy stored in the nucleus of an atom

What is kinetic energy?

• One of the two types of energy; motion

• moving from one place to another

• One of the two types of energy; energy of position

• a ball rolling across the floor

According to the Law of Conservation of Energy, energy cannot be _________ or ____________. 

• destroyed, destroyed
• created, saved
• created, destroyed
• lost, found

What do we call a change from one form of Energy to another?

• Energy change
• Energy transformation
• Energy conversion
• Energy creation

________________ is the transfer of heat that occurs when one thing touch another one.

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

________________ is the transfer of thermal energy as matter moves. In convection, a gas or a liquid moves from place to place.

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

• thermal energy

What is Radiation?

• When heat is passed from particle to particle through an object.

• When particles get heated, expand, and become less dense.

• When heat transfers by waves through empty space.

What is heat?

• a basketball team
• thermal energy
• electricity
• light energy

A measure of the average amount of kinetic energy of the particles in the object.

• energy
• expansion
• temperature
• heat