Energy Unit (4th Grade)

An object’s location (usually described as it relates to another object)

• Position

• Motion

• Force

• Acceleration

The tendency for an object in motion stay in motion and objects at rest stay at rest (all objects have this property)

• Energy

• Speed

• Inertia

• Force

a force between surfaces that slows objects or stops them from moving.

• force

• friction

• gravity

• acceleration

The ability to do work

• Friction

• Velocity

• Motion

• Energy

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The fact that energy cannot be created nor destroyed. It can only change forms.

• Potential Energy

• Kinetic Energy

• Energy Transfer

• Law of Conservation of Energy

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energy that is stored and ready to be used

• kinetic energy

• gravity

• potential energy

• friction

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A force not caused by objects touching

• noncontact force

• contact force

• friction

• motion

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when energy chances from one form to another

• energy transformation

• chemical energy

• gravity

• speed

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• force

• inertia

• acceleration

• noncontact force

• speed

• force

• motion

• position

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