Types of Energy
Energy from motion
What is kinetic energy?
The sum of kinetic and potential energy in particles of a material
What is thermal energy?
The movement of thermal energy from a warmer object to a cooler object.
What is Heat?
A change from one kind of energy to another.
What is energy transformation?
Energy created by sunlight
What is solar energy?
Stored Energy
What is potential energy?
The energy an object has due to its height
What is gravitational potential energy?
The transfer of thermal energy by direct contact.
What is conduction?
The law that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
The energy produced by moving water.
What is hydroelectric energy?
The ability to move or do work
What is energy?
The energy of electric charges
What is electrical energy?
The transfer of thermal energy via heating and cooling of fluids.
What is convection?
Kinetic or potential energy associated with the position or motion of an object
What is mechanical energy?
Energy created using wind turbines.
What is wind energy?
The energy stored in the nucleus of an atom
What is nuclear energy?
A type of potential energy that is stored in chemical bonds between atoms
What is chemical energy?
The movement of fluids due to convection.
What is a convection current?
An object that is easily able to transfer heat
What is a conductor?
Energy made from heat under the Earth's surface.
What is geothermal energy?
An energy that moves in waves, which includes light, gamma waves, and other types of radiation.
What is electromagnetic energy?
The stored energy in compressed or stretched objects
What is elastic potential energy?
The transfer of thermal energy by waves.
An object that is not able to transfer heat easily
What is an insulator?
Energy made from the chemical energy stored in plants.
What is biomass energy?