Matching Pairs Work and EnergyOnline version vocabulary exercise for work and energy by Monica Watkins 1 Energy 2 Compound machine 3 Kinetic energy 4 Gravitational potential energy 5 Simple machine 6 Power 7 Potential energy 8 Mechanical advantage 9 Law of conservation of energy 10 Efficiency 11 Mechanical energy 12 Work states that energy cannot be created or destroyed a combination of two or more simple machines the sum of the kinetic energy and potential energy of the objects in a system energy that is due to the gravitational forces between objects the ability to cause change energy due to motion the ratio of the output force to input force is the ratio of output work to input work a machine that does work with only one movement of the machine energy that is stored due to the interactions between objects force applied through a distance the rate at which energy is converted