Chapter 3 Vocabulary - Energy, Work, and Simple Machines

Stored in and released from the bonds between atoms

• chemical energy

• electric energy

• nuclear energy

• thermal energy

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Form of kinetic energy that an electric current carries

• chemical energy

• electric energy

• radiant energy

• seismic energy

Ability to cause a change

• transform

• work

• vacuum

• energy

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Object that has energy because it is in motion

• potential energy

• kinetic energy

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Sum of potential energy and kinetic energy in a system of objects

• mechanical energy

• thermal energy

• radiant energy

• seismic energy

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Stored in and released from the nucleus of an atom

• chemical energy

• radiant energy

• nuclear energy

• thermal energy

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Stored energy that depends on the interaction of objects, particles, or atoms

• potential energy

• kinetic energy

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Carried by electromagnetic waves

• radiant energy

• seismic energy

• sound energy

• thermal energy

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Transferred by waves moving through the ground

• radiant energy

• sound energy

• electric energy

• seismic energy

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Carried by sound waves

• seismic energy

• sound energy

• radiant energy

• nuclear energy

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