Match each energy term to its meaning
Exercise and reference answers
- Matching pairs
- Left
- Kinetic energy
- Right
- Energy of an object in motion
- Left
- Chemical energy
- Right
- Energy stored in chemical bonds
- Left
- Free energy
- Right
- Energy left after entropy counted
- Left
- Activation energy
- Right
- Push needed to start a reaction
- Left
- Transition state
- Right
- High energy, unstable middle
- Left
- Active site
- Right
- Where the substrate binds
- Instructions
- Tap a term on the left, then tap its meaning on the right.
Explanation
_Source: OpenStax Biology for AP(R) Courses (CC BY 4.0), Ch 6 'Metabolism', sections 6.1-6.5_