Forms of Energy
States of Matter
Miscellaneous Vocabulary
Changes in matter
Changing States
100

This is the energy all living things obtain in order to live.

What is chemical energy?

100

It is composed of molecules with no definite shape or volume.

What is a gas?

100

Particles in matter are constantly in __________.

What is random motion?

100

Chopping

physical

100

When the ice in your drink melts, the ice _______ energy.

What is gains?

200

A soccer ball is part of a system when it interacts with the net. What kind of energy?

What is kinetic energy?

200

The smallest particle of a single element.

What is an atom?

200

It transfers energy without transferring matter.

What is a wave?

200

burning wood

chemical

200

When condensation occurs on grass, the water vapor _________ energy.

What is loses?

300

Energy that moves in waves.

What is electromagnetic energy?

300

Matter that has a definite volume but no definite shape.

What is a liquid?

300

Release of energy

exothermic

300

freezing water

physical

300

This change occurs when a liquid loses energy.

What is freezing?

400

Energy based on position.

What is potenital energy?

400

It is composed of tightly packed molecules, with definite shape and volume.

What is a solid?

400

The average kinetic energy of particles.

What is temperature?

400

cooking an egg

chemical 

400

Boiling causes water to gain energy, this process causes an _________.

exothermic reaction?

500

The sum of kinetic and potential energy in the particles of an object.

What is thermal energy?

500

Salt is composed of particles of sodium and chloride, a single sodium chloride is a _____________.

What is molecule?

500

absorbs energy

endothermic

500

mixing coke and milk

chemical and physical 

500

When ice cream melts this is an 

endothermic reaction

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