8th grade unit 2 vocabulary

the energy of motion, the energy of matter or particles in motion is called________________________.

• Potential energy

• Kinetic Energy

• Chemical energy

• Elastic

  Energy

The capacity for doing work, ability to cause change

• independent variable

• gravity

• power

• energy

The energy an object has in it due to being deformed. Any object that can be deformed and then return to its original shape. stretched or compressed

• thermal energy

• variable

• elastic energy

• kinetic energy

The potential energy held by an object because of its high position compared to a lower position

• elastic energy

• gravitational potential energy

• kinetic energy

• light energy

Which of the following definitions means that energy is not created or destroyed it just changes forms

• law of conservation of mass

• law of conservation of energy

• energy saving

• energy bank

the total of all kinetic energies within a given system or the total kinetic enrgy of all the particles

• potential energy

• gravitational potential energy

• electrical energy

• thermal energy

the stored energy an object has becasue of its position or state (STORED ENERGY)

• KINETIC ENERGY

• CHEMICAL ENERGY

• SOUND ENERGY

• POTENTIAL ENERGY

the form of energy generated when an object vibrates

• sound energy

• chemical energy

• electrical energy

• thermal energy

the energy derived as a result of movement of electrically charged particles

• sound energy

• electrical energy

• potential energy

• chemical energy

materials that permit electrons to flow freely from particle to particle

• conductor

• insulator