Energy

Energy appears in different forms and is used in different ways. The main forms of energy are...

• mechanical, chemical, electrical, thermal, light and nuclear.

• Chemical and kinetic

• movement, travelling and potential

Mechanical energy is...

• The energy that produces movement.

• The energy that enables people and things to move.

• The energy we use to change the direction that an object is travelling in.

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What types of mechanical energy are there?

• Potential and mechanical

• movement and kinetic

• Kinetic and potential

Kinetic energy is...

• The energy in the form of potential energy.

• The energy in the form of movement.

Energy is the ability of an object to move, heat up or produce light.

• True

• False

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This is the energy stored in some substances

• Electrical energy

• Nuclear energy

• Chemical energy

• Thermal energy

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This is the energy in the form of heat.

• Thermal energy

• Light energy

• Electrical energy

• Nuclear energy

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This is the energy in the form of light.

• Nuclear energy

• Thermal energy

• Light energy

• Electrical energy

This is the energy in the form of electricity.

• Chemical energy

• Light energy

• Thermal energy

• Electrical energy

This type of energy is stored in the atomic structure of all matter.

• Nuclear energy

• Electrical energy

• Chemical energy

• Light energy