Energy 6 th Grade. Energy The ability to do work or cause change.
What is Energy? Energy is the ability to cause change.
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A Change is Going to Come
Energy at Work
What is Energy?
• Energy is the ability to cause change
Objects can gain energy.A pot boiling is gaining heat energy.
Objects can lose energy.A bowling ball loses mechanical energy when it hits the bowling
pins.
Energy appears in many forms.
• heat/thermal• light• sound• mechanical
Thermal Energy
• Moves molecules• Is felt as heat
Light Energy• The primary source of light energy is the sun• Light energy produces heat
Sound Energy
• All sound begins when something vibrates
Mechanical Energy
• The energy of motion
You Decide
• Which tasks have energy?• If so, what kind of energy?
ThermalLight
Sound Mechanical