5.6A Uses of Energy

What is mechanical energy?

• Energy produced by a machine or moving parts.

• Energy that can be measured by a thermometer.

• Energy that travels as waves through the air or water and vibrates the eardrum.

• Energy which our eyes can detect.

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What is thermal energy?

• Energy produced by a machine or moving parts.

• Energy that can be measured by a thermometer.

• Energy that travels as waves through the air or water and vibrates the eardrum.

• Energy which our eyes can detect.

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What is sound energy?

• Energy produced by a machine or moving parts.

• Energy that can be measured by a thermometer.

• Energy that travels as waves through the air or water and vibrates the eardrum.

• Energy which our eyes can detect.

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What is light energy?

• Energy produced by a machine or moving parts.

• Energy that can be measured by a thermometer.

• Energy that travels as waves through the air or water and vibrates the eardrum.

• Energy which our eyes can detect.

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What is electrical energy?

• Energy produced by a machine or moving parts.

• Energy that can be measured by a thermometer.

• Energy that travels as waves through the air or water and vibrates the eardrum.

• Energy resulting from the flow of charged particles.

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What is kinetic energy?

• Energy produced by a machine or moving parts.

• Energy that can be measured by a thermometer.

• Energy that travels as waves through the air or water and vibrates the eardrum.

• Energy of motion possessed by an object.

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What is potential energy?

• Energy produced by a machine or moving parts.

• Energy that can be measured by a thermometer.

• Energy that travels as waves through the air or water and vibrates the eardrum.

• Energy stored in an object due to its position or condition.

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Energy

• Stored Energy

• Energy produced by a machine or moving parts

• What is needed to do work or cause change.

• Energy that travels as waves.

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Transparent

• An instrument that measures Earth's gravitational pull on an object

• Allowing light to pass through

• impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light

• A scientific tool used to measure the mass of an object.

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Opaque

• impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light

• A scientific tool used to measure the mass of an object.

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  Allowing light to pass through

• An instrument that measures Earth's gravitational pull on an object.

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