Energy forms - CCEAEnergy

Energy cannot be created or destroyed but it can be transferred, dissipated or stored in different ways.

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Energy

Forms of energy are just different types of energy such as heat, light, sound, kinetic and chemical.

Energy resources are stores of a particular type of energy.

Examples of energy resources include sunlight, wind, waves, coal and oil.

Chemical energy is a type of energy.

Coal is an example of an energy resource of (or store of) chemical energy.

Energy forms

The main forms of are:

  • chemical
  • heat
  • electrical
  • sound
  • light
  • magnetic
  • or strain energy
  • nuclear
Different types of energy include kinetic, light, Gravitational Potential (GPE), chemical, sound, electrical, elastic potential, nuclear and internal strain energy.
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Different types of energy