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| the ability to cause change |
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| What is the energy an object has due to its motion? |
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| What is the energy stored in an object because of its posistion |
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| Potential energy of an object is greater if.. |
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| it is higher above the floor |
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| What does potential energy depend on? |
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| How is thermal energy released? |
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| by chemical reactions coming from abother form fo energy called chemical energy |
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| Wht is the energy stored in chemical bonds? |
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| The object absorbs energy from the light and this energy is transformed into what? |
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| The amount of electrical energy depends on the what? |
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| What uses the energy stored in the nucleus of an atom to generated electricity? |
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| Every atomic nucleus contains energy that can be transformed into other forms of energy. What kind of energy can be transformed? |
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| According to what, energy is never created or destroyed? |
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| law of conservation of energy |
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| Inside your body, what kind of energy is transformed into kinetic energy? |
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| What helps convert these chemical compounds to sipler chemicals that can be used by other living things? |
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| bacteria, fungi, and others |
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| How does thermal energy move? |
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| only from something at a highter temperature to something with a lower temperature |
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| What is the principle that every powerplant works on? |
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| energy is used to turn a large genoration |
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| Chemical energy changes into thermal energy when? |
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| Electrical energy changes into thermal energy when? |
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| when a wire that is carrying an electric current goes hot |
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| What can thermal energy also be transformed into? |
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| Almost how much of the electrical energy generated in the US is produce by nuclear and flossil fuel power plants? |
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