The potential energy stored inside chemical bonds, released when they break, is called:

1. Potential energy is stored energy waiting to be released. 2. In a molecule that store sits in the bonds between the atoms. 3. The type of potential energy that exists within chemical bonds, and is released when those bonds are broken, is called chemical energy. 4. That is why living things consume sugar: sugar molecules have a great deal of energy stored within their bonds. _Source: OpenStax Biology for AP(R) Courses (CC BY 4.0), Ch 6 'Metabolism', sections 6.1-6.5_