Types of Energy
Energy is due to position or movement of an object - Kinetic and Potential
Forms of energy
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What is it?
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Example?
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Kinetic energy
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Energy in movement
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Cars, Balls, Rubber band
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Mechanical energy
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Makes things move by workable moving part or parts
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Wind up toy, scissors
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Thermal energy
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Hot energy that can be transferred from one thing to another
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Fire, Sun, Magma
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Magnetic energy
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Energy from attraction of objects made of iron
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Magnets,
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Electrical energy
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A form of energy taken from nature
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TV remote, Sun
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Potential energy
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Stored Energy
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Cars,
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Gravitational energy
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Energy stored in objects held above the earth’s surface
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Throwing something in the air,
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Elastic energy
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Stretched or squashed, potential energy
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Slingshot
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Chemical energy
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Is stored in the bonds that hold atoms together
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Coal, Gas, Oil
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Nuclear energy
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Energy stored inside an atom
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Nuclear power plant - provides electricity
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