Forms of Energy
Renewable Energy
Nonrenewable Energy
Energy Transformations
Thermal Energy
100
The form of energy that an apple stores.
What is chemical energy?
100
Energy from the sun.
What is solar energy?
100
Name three types of fossil fuels.
What are coal, oil, and natural gas?
100
This has to spin in order to transform energy from wind into electrical energy.
What is a wind turbine?
100
This causes lakes and oceans to get warmer when they are in the sunlight.
What is radiation?
200

A stretched rubberband stores this type of energy.

What is elastic energy?

200
Energy from moving water.
What is hydroelectric energy?
200
Energy that comes from the nucleus of a uranium atom.
What is nuclear energy?
200
A heater is plugged in and it transforms electrical energy into ____________ energy.
What is thermal energy?
200
This causes a metal spoon to get hot when it is placed in a pot on the stove.
What is conduction?
300
A battery stores this kind of energy.
What is chemical energy?
300
Energy from steam rising from Earth's interior.
What is geothermal energy?
300
A type of fossil fuel formed from dead plants that were buried under layers of soil.
What is coal?
300

After you eat food, the chemical energy transforms into ___________________ energy as you run.

What is kinetic energy?

300
Steam rising from a cup of hot chocolate.
What is convection?
400
The form of energy a skier on top of a hill stores.
What is gravitational or gravitational potential energy?
400
Energy from once-living matter (plants, sawdust, bark, corn)
What is biomass?
400
A type of fossil fuel formed from the remains of marine plants and animals that were buried on the ocean floor.
What is oil and/or natural gas?
400

When "moving" water (mechanical energy) turns a turbine it transforms into __________________ energy.

What is electrical?

400
Heat that travels through movements of currents in a liquid or gas.
What is convection?
500

The type of energy transfer from the movement of electrons.

What is electrical energy?

500
Energy from wind spinning the blades of a turbine.
What is wind energy?
500
An effect of burning fossil fuels.
What is pollution?
500

Describe what happens to a ball's gravitational potential and kinetic stores when it bounces (both down and up)

Down: Gravitational goes down, kinetic goes up

Up: Kinetic goes down, gravitational goes up

500
Heat that travels in waves from the sun through empty space.
What is radiation?
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