ENERGY Different forms of energy: solar, sound, light, heat, mechanical, muscular, electrical, chemical and nuclear Solar

energy energy that comes from the sun. - it is changed to other forms of energy when it reaches the Earth !lants transform solar energy into chemical energy in the !rocess of !hotosynthesis food manufactured "y !lants is eaten "y humans and is transformed into muscular energy when humans mo#e any !art of his "ody Sound energy energy that is !roduced when o"$ects #i"rate - it tra#els as wa#es through matter %ight energy energy that ma&e humans a"le to see o"$ects around him light energy is a form of radiant energy and it tra#els through s!ace as wa#es at a #ery fast s!eed 'eat energy energy used to coo&, to run engines, to dry wet materials, to gi#e warmth atoms in solids, li(uids and gas mo#e and when they gain energy "ecause of heat they mo#e faster matter, when heated e)!ands "ecause the distances "etween molecules increases when heated

*echanical energy energy com!osed of !otential energy, the energy of !osition, and &inetic energy, the energy of motion *uscular energy energy used when humans mo#e any !art of their "ody Electrical energy energy !roduced when electrons flow along a wire or a conductor it is the energy used ma&e a!!liances wor& e#en factories +hemical energy energy stored in the molecules of a su"stance fuels li&e gasoline and &erosene ha#e chemical energy so when "urned they !roduce another form of energy Nuclear energy a !owerful &ind of energy !roduced from the nucleus of atoms E%E+,R-+-,Y a con#enient way to carry energy from one !lace to another +onductors materials that allow the flow of electricity E). metals, steel, co!!er wires, iron, water -nsulators materials that "loc& the flow of electricity E). ru""er, !lastic, cloth, wood

Electrical charges tiny "its of electricity in matter !ositi#e and negati#e charges or unli&e charges !ull on or attract each other !ositi#e-!ositi#e or negati#e-negati#e or li&e charges !ush away or re!el each other Electric current mo#ement of electric charges from one !lace to another E%E+,R-+-,Y .ND *.GNE,S *agnetism force around a magnet Electromagnet a wire coil that "ecomes a magnet when electric current mo#es through it the Earth acts li&e a giant magnet/ its magnetism is strongest near the North and South magnetic !oles of the Earth a magnet has two !oles, the north !ole and the south !ole