Kinetic and Potential Energy Vocabulary

What is Kinetic Energy?

• The ability or power to do work

• Energy of motion

• A measure of how much matter is present in a substance

• Energy that is stored in a system or object

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What does the Law of Conservation of Energy state?

• Energy can be created and destroyed

• Energy is the capacity or power to do work

• Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changes form

• Energy is a force that can change the motion of an object

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What is Mass?

• The rate of change of position with respect to time

• The amount of space that an object or substance occupies

• The energy stored in a system or object

• A measure of how much matter is present in a substance

What does the term Movement describe?

• The ability or power to do work

• The change in the position of an object over time and in comparison to the position of other objects used as reference points

• The rate of change of position over time

• Where an object is in relation to another object

What is Velocity?

• The energy stored in a system or object

• The ability or power to do work

• The rate of change of position (or distance traveled) with respect to time; the unit in which speed is measured is expressed as distance per time (for example, meters per second)

• A measure of how much matter is present in a substance

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What is Density?

• The energy stored in a system or object

• It is a word we use to describe how much space an object or substance takes up (its volume) in relation to the amount of matter in that object or substance (its mass)

• The ability or power to do work

• A push or pull that can change the motion of an object

What is Energy?

• The energy stored in a system or object

• The capacity or power to do work

• A push or pull that can change the motion of an object

• Where an object is in relation to another object

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What is Force?

• The ability or power to do work

• Energy of motion

• A push or pull that can change the motion of an object

• The energy that is stored in a system or object

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What is Potential Energy?

• The capacity or power to do work

• Energy of motion

• The energy stored in a system or object

• The rate of change of position with respect to time

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What does Relative Position describe?

• The ability or power to do work

• Energy of motion

• Where an object is in relation to another object

• The rate of change of position with respect to time