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Energy Unit Terms

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Energy   The ability to do work or make objects/molecules move  
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Kinetic Energy   Energy that is moving (even if you can't see it, like electricity moving in a wire)  
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Potential Energy   Stored energy (like holding a book above a table)  
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Heat   Called Thermal Energy, a type of kinetic energy, measured using a thermometer  
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temperature   data collected in degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit. Temperature shows how much thermal energy is in an object  
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Gravitational Potential Energy   Energy of position. GPE increases with height (higher from ground = more GPE) and mass (more mass = more GPE). Example: A roller coaster at the top of a hill  
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Transformed   Energy changing into another type. Example: Dropping a basketball on the ground changes Gravitational potential energy into kinetic energy of motion  
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Transferred   Moving energy from one place to another. Example: Your mom giving you an apple. She is moving chemical energy from her hand to yours.  
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Law of Conservation of Energy   The law that states that energy can not be made or disappear but is just moved around  
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nonrenewable resource   Energy from sources like fossil fuels (gas, oil, natural gas, coal) that once used cannot be replaced  
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renewable resource   Energy from sources like the sun, wind, hydro electric, tidal, etc. that are not used up  
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mass   the amount of matter in an object  
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volume   the amount of space an object takes up  
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energy efficiency   how much energy can be converted into a useful form (Amount of energy used for required or needed purpose vs energy put into the system)  
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