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| Energy | ability to cause changes in matter |
| Law of conservation of energy | law that states that energy cannot be created or destroyed |
| Potential energy | energy that is due to the position or condition of an object |
| Kinetic energy | energy of motion |
| Thermal energy | kinetic energy of the moving particles of a substance |
| Heat | movement or transfer of thermal energy |
| Convection | transfer of thermal energy through fluids or gas |
| Radiation | transfer of thermal energy as waves |
| Conduction | transfer of thermal energy by touch |
| Transfer | energy type stays the same. E.g. flame heat to boil water |
| Transformations | energy type is changed into another form. E.g. chemical to kinetic |
| Efficiency | the measure of how much useful energy is transferred or transformed from one state to another. |
| Vacuum | the absence or lack of air |
| Battery | a chemical storage of potential energy |
| Resistor | slows down the flow of electrons in a circuit |
| Magnet | substance in which all the domains are aligned in the same direction |
| Electricity | interaction of electric charges |
| Electric energy | movement of electric charge from one place to another |
| Circuit | connection between the poles of an electrical energy source |
| Conductor | a material that allows electrons to flow |
| Insulator | a material that restricts the flow of electrons |
| Electromagnet | magnet that can be turned on and off at will |
| Chemical energy | form of potential energy stored in reactants |
| Nuclear energy | energy contained in the bonds that hold the protons and neutrons of an atom’s nucleus together |
| Fission | process of a nucleus breaking into two parts |
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