| A | B |
|---|
| energy | the ability to cause change |
| kinetic energy | the energy of motion |
| potential energy | the energy of position or condition |
| Law of Conservation of Energy | energy cannot be created or destroyed |
| going down a hill | kinetic energy |
| a car at a stop sign | potential energy |
| Greek word energos | means "active" |
| shape, speed, direction, temperature | energy changes/transformations |
| temperature | the average kinetic energy of particles in an object |
| thermal energy | the total kinetic energy in a material |
| radiation | energy that travels by waves in all directions |
| conduction | transfer of thermal energy where there is a temperature difference |
| insulators | material that doesn't allow thermal energy to be conducted |
| conductors | materials that transfer thermal energy easily |
| convection | transfers thermal energy from one place to another AND differences in temperatures |
