Energy Vocabulary

Energy stored in the bonds of atoms and molecules

• Chemical Energy

• Kinetic Energy

• Potential Energy

The process by which heat or electricity is directly transmitted through a substance when there is a difference of temperature or of electrical potential between adjoining regions, without movement of the material.

• Convection

• Conduction

• Heat Transfer

• Chemical Energy

A material or device that conducts or transmits heat, electricity, or sound, especially when regarded in terms of its capacity to do this

• Electric Energy

• Heat Transfer

• Convection

• Conduction

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The energy generated by the movement of electrons from one point to another

• Potential Energy

• Kinetic Energy

• Chemical Energy

• Electric Energy

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Radiant energy that travels in waves at the speed of light

• Electromagnetic Energy

• Electric Energy

• Kinetic Energy

• Potential Energy

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A type of magnet in which the magnetic field is produced by an electric current

• Electromagnet

• Electric Magnet

• Transfer Magnets

The capacity of power to do work

• Energy

• Heat

• Movement

• Insulator

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Also known as energy conversion, is the process of changing energy from one form to another

• Energy Transformation

• Gravitational Pull

• Heat

• Insulator

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The energy possessed or acquired by an object due to a change in its position when it is present in a gravitational field

• Gravitational Potential Energy

• Gravitational Kinetic Energy

• Electromagnetic Energy

• Chemical Energy

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The transfer of kinetic energy from one medium or object to another, or from an energy source to a medium or object

• heat

• insulator

• magnet

• conservation

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