Unit 7 Energy Vocab

Energy
can never be created or destroyed, it can
only change forms

• Law of Conservation of Energy

• Mechanical energy

• Potential Energy

• Thermal Energy

light that
comes from the sun
and lightbulbs

• Thermal

• Radiant

• Electrical

• Nuclear

Thermal

• light that
  comes from the sun
  and lightbulbs

• comes
  from a variety
  of sources;
  used most
  often for
  communication

• heat that
  comes from fire, sun,
  etc

• comes
  from releasing
  energy from the
  nucleus of an
  atom

comes from
outlets and
power plants;
used to power
electrical
devices.

• Electrical

• Nuclear

• Sound

comes
from a variety
of sources;
used most
often for
communication

• Sound

• Thermal

• Electrical

Nuclear

• light that

  comes from the sun

  and lightbulbs

• form of energy
  that is reflected or
  emitted in the form
  of electrical and
  magnetic waves
  that can travel
  through space

• comes
  from releasing
  energy from the
  nucleus of an
  atom

form of energy

that is reflected or

emitted in the form

of electrical and

magnetic waves

that can travel

through space.

• Electromagnetic

• Temperature

• Conduction

• Radiation

Mechanical energy

• energy
  can never be created or destroyed, it can
  only change forms

• the total amount of
  kinetic and potential energy in a system.

• form of energy

  that is reflected or

  emitted in the form

  of electrical and

  magnetic waves

  that can travel

  through space

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

• Thermal Energy

• Temperature

• Heat

• Conduction

a measure of the
average kinetic energy of particles
in an object.

• Convection

• Radiation

• Temperature

• Insulators