The Storing Of Energy

• Your body

  • Energy is added to your body's chemical store when you eat food.
  • Energy is stored there until you need it.
  • Your body then transfers it to your thermal store when you need to keep warm, or to your kinetic store to move about.
• Bank account

  • We can think of energy stores and transfers as a bank account.
  • You earn money by doing work, then save it until there is something you want.
  • You then transfer it to another person to buy whatever it is you want.
• In animals, energy is stored in the chemical store. To allow animals to move, energy is transferred from the chemical store to the kinetic store. The energy is converted during respiration.