Energy Vocab

Question 1

stored in and released from bonds between atoms

Answer 1

chemical energy

Question 2

electric current

Answer 2

electric energy

Question 3

ability to cause change

Answer 3

energy

Question 4

energy due to motion

Answer 4

kinetic energy

Question 5

stored in and released from nucleus of an atom

Answer 5

nuclear energy

Question 6

stored energy

Answer 6

potential energy

Question 7

distance an object moves per unit of time

Answer 7

speed

Question 8

sum of kinetic and potential energy in an object

Answer 8

thermal energy

Question 9

disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another without transferring matter

Answer 9

wave

Question 10

system which neither matter nor energy is exchanged with environment

Answer 10

closed system

Question 11

energy moving from object to object without changing form

Answer 11

energy transfer

Question 12

energy changes/converted into another form

Answer 12

energy transformation

Question 13

law stating matter cannot be created nor destroyed, it can only transform/ change form

Answer 13

Law of Conservation of Energy

Question 14

system which exchanges matter or energy with environment

Answer 14

open system

Question 15

source which is used faster than it can be replaced

Answer 15

nonrenewable energy source

Question 16

source which is replaced as fast as or faster than it is used

Answer 16

renewable energy source

Question 17

supply of materials, money, assets to be used as needed

Answer 17

resource

Question 18

transfer of energy which occurs when a force moves an object in the direction the force is applied only while the force is acting on the object.

Answer 18

work

Question 19

transfer of thermal energy by collisions between particles of matter

Answer 19

conduction

Question 20

transfer of thermal energy by movement of particles from one part of a material to another like a current

Answer 20

convection

Question 21

state in which temperature of materials in contact is the same

Answer 21

equilibrium

Question 22

movement of thermal energy from area of high temp. to area of low temp.

Answer 22

heat

Question 23

transfer of thermal energy by electromagnetic waves

Answer 23

radiation

Question 24

change in state from solid to gas, skipping liquid state

Answer 24

sublimation

Question 25

measure of average kinetic energy in an object/material

Answer 25

temperature

Question 26

material which thermal energy moves quickly

Answer 26

thermal conductor

Question 27

material which thermal energy moves slowly

Answer 27

thermal insulator

Question 28

change in state from gas to solid, skipping liquid state

Answer 28

vaporization