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| energy | ability to cause changes in matter |
| law of conservation of energy | law that states that energy cannot be created or destroyed |
| potential energy | energy that is due to the position or condition of an object |
| kinetic energy | energy of motion |
| thermal energy | kinetic energy of the moving particles of a substance |
| heat | movement or transfer of thermal energy |
| convection | transfer of thermal energy through fluids |
| radiation | transfer of thermal energy as waves |
| conduction | transfer of thermal energy by touch |
| magnet | substance in which all the domains are aligned in the same direction |
| electricity | interaction of electric charges |
| electric energy | movement of electric charge from one place to another |
| circuit | connection between the poles of an electirc energy source |
| electromagnet | magnet that can be turned on and off at will |
| chemical energy | form of potential energy stored in reactants |
| nuclear energy | energy contained in the bonds that hold the protons and neturons of an atom's nucleus together |
| fission | process of a nucleus breaking into two parts |
