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1
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What is energy?

A

The ability to do work or cause change

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What is power?

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The rate at which energy is transferred

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What is work?

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The transfer of energy

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Energy transferred/Time=

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Power

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What is kinetic energy?

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The energy of motion

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When K.E. increases, what does velocity do?

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Increase

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The more mass a moving object has, the more ….

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K.E. it has

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Energy that is stored and held in readiness is called what?

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Potential Energy

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What does gravitational potential energy depend on?

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Height

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Potential energy associated with objects that can be strecthed or compressed is called what?

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Elastic Potential Energy

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Potential energy stored in chemical bonds that hold chemical compounds together is called what?

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Chemical energy

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How does electromagnetic energy travel?

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In waves

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Why do the waves have kinetic energy?

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Because they move

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What are the two properties electromagnetic energy waves have?

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Electrical properties and Magnetic properties

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When you stretch a rubber band what kind of energy are you giving it?

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Elastic potential energy

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When you release a stretched rubber band and it flies across the room, what happened?

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An energy transformation

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What does the law of conservation of energy state?

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When one form of energy is transformed to another, no energy is destroyed in the process

18
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Energy cannot be what?

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Created or destroyed

19
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What is combustion?

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The process of burning fossil fuels

20
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When combustion takes place, what energy transformation takes place?

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Potential energy into thermal energy

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What is the formula for Mechanical energy?

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Potential energy + Kinetic energy

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What are the two basic forms of energy?

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P.E. and K.E.

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