Content description ACSSU155
Science / Year 8 / Science Understanding / Physical sciences
Content description
Energy appears in different forms including movement (kinetic energy), heat and potential energy, and causes change within systems
Elaborations
- recognising that kinetic energy is the energy possessed by moving bodies
- recognising that potential energy is stored energy, such as gravitational, chemical and elastic energy
- investigating different forms of energy in terms of the effects they cause, such as gravitational potential causing objects to fall and heat energy transferred between materials that have a different temperature
- recognising that heat energy is often produced as a by-product of energy transfer, such as brakes on a car and light globes
- using flow diagrams to illustrate changes between different forms of energy
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