Transfer of heat through a solid or solids (touching objects)
What is conduction?
100
An energy resource from organisms that lived a long time ago.
What are fossil fuels?
100
A type of energy that is a renewable energy source do to flowing water
What is hydroelectric?
100
Fossil fuels are considered to be this type of resource
What are non-renewable (resources)?
200
The stored energy within an object that gives it the potential to move.
What is potential energy?
200
From hot to cold
What is the direction that heat (thermal energy) always travels?
200
A fossil fuel that forms from dead plant remains from thousands of years ago
What is coal?
200
The remains of anything that was alive recently (garbage)
What is biomass?
200
Any supply that will meet a need.
What is a resource?
300
The energy of moving objects
What is kinetic energy?
300
Transfer of heat through a liquid or liquids?
What is convection?
300
A fossil fuel that forms from dead animal remains from thousands of years ago
What is oil (petroleum)?
300
A type renewable energy source that comes from the sun
What is solar (energy)?
300
True or false: There are disadvantages to every type of energy resource
What is True? (Every energy resource has disadvantages)
400
The total amount of energy remains constant in an isolated system. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed but can change from one object to another
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
400
Transfer of heat through air or waves (non-touching objects)
What is radiation?
400
The cleanest of all of the fossil fuels which can be found above where oil is located.
What is natural gas?
400
A renewable energy that is harnessed by turbines spun by the movement of air
What is wind (energy)?
400
True or False: Soil is QUICKLY being made from the weathering of rock and decaying plants.
What is False. (It is not a QUICK process)
500
Holding a mallet above the holes of a Whac-A-Mole game, waiting for the plastic moles to pop up is an example of what kind of energy?
What is potential energy?
500
A material that transfers heat easily
What is a conductor?
500
The U.S. produces only 3% of this fossil fuel but uses 33%
What is oil (petroleum)?
500
Energy that is produced from heat inside the Earth.
What is geothermal?
500
The type of thermal energy (heat) transfer takes place when you are toasting a slice of bread