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What exactly is Energy?

The definition of 'energy' is: 'the ability or power to do work'  So...

What things have energy?
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What kinds of work do they do?

The sun

a) It lights the dark.
b) It heats things.
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Wind

It moves things.
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The Earth (it's hot deep down!)

It heats things.
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Moving water

It moves things.
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The energy sources above are what we call primary (first) sources of energy. They've been around since the Earth was formed, long before there was anything living. Other sources of energy only became available after life started on the Earth.

The first living things to appear on Earth were the algae and seaweeds in the oceans..

They were the first things to use energy
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