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