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This 20-card flashcard set covers energy and work concepts for middle school science exam preparation. It includes kinetic energy, potential energy, heat transfer, thermal energy, conduction, and the law of conservation of energy. Use it to review physics fundamentals before a unit test or as a study aid during an energy and work unit.

Subject:
Science
Topic:
Physics
Grade Level:
6th – 8th Grades
Updated February 2025

Terms in This Set

  • What is the ability to do work called?
  • Energy is measured in units called?
  • The energy associated with motion is called...
  • If you rub your hands together on a cold day, you use friction to convert what type of energy to what type?
  • What is kinetic energy?
  • What is potential energy?
  • Potential energy that depends on height is called?
  • In order for work to be done on an object, what has to happen?
  • If you exert a force of 20 newtons to push a desk 10 meters, how much work do you do on the desk?
  • What is the formula for work, how do you calculate it?
  • The total energy of all the particles in a substance is called...?
  • The movement of thermal energy from warmer object to a cooler object is called what?
  • What is heat?
  • The transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves is called...?
  • In what direction does heat transfer?
  • How many different forms, or states, does most matter on Earth exist?
  • What is the SI unit of heat?
  • What is the law of conservation of energy?
  • Work is the transfer of what from one object to another?
  • What is conduction?

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