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100
ability to do work
What is energy
100
energy an object has due to its motion
What is Kinetic energy
100
stored energy that results from the position or shape of an object
What is Potential energy
100
potential energy related to an object's height
What is Gravitational Potential energy
100
potential energy related with objects that can be stretched and compressed
What is elastic potential energy
200
energy associated with the position and motion of an object
What is mechanical energy
200
total potential and kinetic energy of the particles in an object
What is thermal energy
200
energy of electric charges
What is electric energy
200
potential energy stored in chemical bonds that hold chemical compounds together
What is chemical energy
200
energy stored in the nucleas of an atom
What is nuclear energy
300
energy that travels through waves
What is electromagnetic energy
300
change in energy from one form to another
What is energy transformation
300
this states that energy cannot be created or destroyed
What is law of conservation of energy
300
anything that has mass and takes up space
What is matter
300
fuels used today that were made from materials that formed hundreds of millions of years ago
What is fossil fuels
400
process of burning fossil fuels
What is combustion
400
a measure of the average kinetic enery of the individual particles in matter
What is temperature
400
freezing point: 32 and boiling point: 212
What is Faherenheit scale
400
freezing point: 0 and boiling point: 100
What is Celsius scale
400
freezing point: 273 and boiling point: 373
What is Kelvin scale
500
heat transferredfrom one particle of matter to another without the movement of the matter
What is conduction
500
heat is transferred by the movement of currents within a fluid
What is convection
500
transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves
What is radiation
500
material that conducts heat well
What is conductor
500
material that doesn't conduct heat well
What is insulator