SCIENCE
Energy & PowerVocabulary
Knowledge (WORD)
MOTION
(MECHANICAL)
CHEMICAL
SOUND
Information
(DEFINITION)
Energy produced
by moving
objects.
Memory
(PICTURE)
Bicycle moving
Energy produced
by a chemical
reaction/change.
Energy caused
by sound waves
traveling
through the air.
Bell ringing
LIGHT
Energy made by
(ELECTROMAGNETIC) the light waves.
HEAT
(THERMAL)
ELECTRICAL
ENERGY
TRANSFORMATION
(Conversion)
Your body converts
chemical energy into
mechanical.
Microwaves
Energy produced
from other
forms of energy.
Energy produced
by the flow of
electrons
through a wire.
A change from
one form of
energy to
another form of
energy.
A toaster converts
electrical energy into
thermal energy.
POTENTIAL ENERGY
KINETIC ENERGY
ENERGY
KINETIC ENERGY
Stored energy
such as
batteriesposition,
condition, shape
Energy of
motion such as
sound energy.
The ability to do
work or cause
change.
Depends on an
objects m____ A rolling bowling ball
has more kinetic
and its
energy then a golf
v______.
ball rolling at the
same velocity.
A 20 kg shopping
cart moving at 5 m/s.
CALCULATING
KINETIC ENERGY
Kinetic energy =
Mass x
Velocity2
2
 20 x (5)2 divided
by 2
 20 x 25 divided
by 2
 500 divided by 2
 250 J
The energy of
ELASTIC POTENTIAL
an object that is
ENERGY
stretched.
Depends on
height(measured
GRAVITATIONAL
in meters) x
POTENTIAL ENERGY
weight(measured
in Newtons)
A NewtonMeter
equals a Joule