🧪 Topic 3: Energy Vocabulary

A form of potential energy that is stored in chemical bonds between atoms.

• thermal energy
• nuclear energy
• mechanical energy
• chemical energy

2) The rule that energy cannot be created or destroyed.

• Law of energy creation
• Law of conservation of energy

• Energy preservation law
• Energy conservation principle

A push or pull exerted on an object.

• Force

• Momentum
• Velocity
• Energy

The ability to do work or cause change.

• power
• energy

• motion
• force

The energy of electric charges.

• Magnetic potential energy
• Kinetic energy
• Electric energy

• Thermal energy

The state in which one object’s distance from another is changing.

• stationary
• stillness
• motion
• rest

The potential energy stored in the nucleus of an atom.

• Nuclear energy

• Chemical energy

• Electrical energy

• energy

Energy that an object has due to its motion.

• kinetic energy
• thermal energy
• electrical energy
• potential energy

The energy an object has because of its position; also the internal stored energy of an object, such as energy stored in chemical bonds.

• Kinetic energy
• Thermal energy
• Electrical energy
• Potential energy

Kinetic or potential energy associated with the motion or position of an object.

• thermal energy
• electrical energy
• mechanical energy

• chemical energy