Vocabulary Challenge
Match the definitions with the words on your page. Write the definitions beside
the words.
Vocabulary
Energy
Chemical Potential Energy
Isolated System
Elastic Potential Energy
Energy Transformation
Gravitational Potential
Energy
Conservation of Energy
Potential Energy
Kinetic Energy
Nuclear Potential Energy
Electrical Energy
Definition
Mechanical Energy
Thermal Energy
Radiant Energy
Sound Energy
Fill in the Flowchart below using the vocabulary words above:
Questions:
1. What Vocabulary Term states that you cannot create or destroy energy?
2. If you cannot create or destroy energy, what happens to energy?
3. In your house during winter, do you want to keep energy (heat and light)
inside or share it with the outside? Is your house trying to be a closed
system or an open system?
Energy
The ability to do work
Chemical Potential Energy
the energy stored in the bonds between atoms
that holds molecules together
Isolated System
A system that does not lose or gain energy
Elastic Potential Energy
or stored mechanical energy, is energy stored in
an object by the application of force
Energy Transformation
Energy transforming from one type (like
chemical energy) to another type (like thermal)
Gravitational Potential Energy
the energy an object has because of its position
or height
Conservation of Energy
Energy can be transformed but it can never be
be created or destroyed
Potential Energy
Energy that is being stored
Kinetic Energy
Energy that is being used
Nuclear Potential Energy
the energy stored in the nucleus of the atom
that holds the nucleus together
Electrical Energy
the energy from flow of electric charge
(movement of electrons in one direction)
Mechanical Energy
or motion, is the movement of objects or
substances from one place to another
Thermal Energy
or heat energy, the internal energy of a
substance due to the vibration of atoms and
molecules making up the substance
Radiant Energy
or light energy, or electromagnetic energy that
travels in transverse waves
Sound Energy
the movement of energy through substances in
the form of compression waves
Cutouts
The ability to do work
The ability to do work
the energy stored in the bonds between
atoms that holds molecules together
the energy stored in the bonds between
atoms that holds molecules together
A system that does not lose or gain energy
A system that does not lose or gain energy
or stored mechanical energy, is energy
stored in an object by the application of
force
or stored mechanical energy, is energy
stored in an object by the application of
force
Energy transforming from one type (like
chemical energy) to another type (like
thermal)
Energy transforming from one type (like
chemical energy) to another type (like
thermal)
the energy an object has because of its
position or height
the energy an object has because of its
position or height
Energy can be transformed but it can
never be be created or destroyed
Energy can be transformed but it can never
be be created or destroyed
Energy that is being stored
Energy that is being stored
Energy that is being used
Energy that is being used
the energy stored in the nucleus of the
atom that holds the nucleus together
the energy stored in the nucleus of the
atom that holds the nucleus together
the energy from flow of electric charge
(movement of electrons in one direction)
the energy from flow of electric charge
(movement of electrons in one direction)
or motion, is the movement of objects or
substances from one place to another
or motion, is the movement of objects or
substances from one place to another
or heat energy, the internal energy of a
substance due to the vibration of atoms
and molecules making up the substance
or heat energy, the internal energy of a
substance due to the vibration of atoms
and molecules making up the substance
or light energy, or electromagnetic energy
that travels in transverse waves
or light energy, or electromagnetic energy
that travels in transverse waves
the movement of energy through
the movement of energy through
substances in the form of compression
waves
substances in the form of compression
waves