Forms of Energy Vocabulary

The ability to cause change

• Law of Conservation of Energy

• Work

• Energy

• Sound Energy

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Energy an object has due to its motion

• Potential Energy

• Thermal Energy

• Nuclear Engery

• Kinetic Energy

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Energy stored in an object due to its position

• Kinetic Energy

• Potential Energy

• Radiant Energy

• Elastic Energy

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Energy that all objects have that increases as the objects temperature increases

• Thermal Energy

• Gravitational Energy

• Work

• Joule

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Energy Stored in chemical bonds

• Electrical Energy

• Chemical Energy

• Transformation

• Radiant Energy

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Energy carried by light

• Nuclear Energy

• Sound Energy

• Radiant Energy

• Thermal Energy

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Energy carried by electric current

• Transformation

• Thermal Energy

• Kinetic Energy

• Electrical Energy

Energy produced from the splitting apart of billions of uranium nuclei by a nuclear fission reaction

• Nuclear Energy

• Sound Energy

• Chemical Energy

• Elastic Energy

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The movement of energy through a substance in waves

• Electrical Energy

• Sound Energy

• Gravitational Energy

• Mechanical Energy

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The energy stored in an object by stretching or compressing

• Nuclear Energy

• Law of Conservation of Energy

• Joule

• Elastic Energy

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