Kinetic/Potential
Forms of Energy
Energy Transformation
Nonrenewable Energy
Renewable Energy
100
Energy due to motion.
What is kinetic energy?
100
The ability to cause change.
What is energy?
100
An apple falls from a tree and lands on the ground.
What is kinetic to potential energy?
100
Remains of ancient organisms that can be burned as an energy source.
What are fossil fuels?
100
Energy that uses falling water.
What are hydroelectric power plants?
200
Stored energy due to the interactions between objects or particles.
What is potential energy?
200
The total energy of an object or group of objects due to large scale motions and interactions.
What is mechanical energy?
200
A force that resists the sliding of two surfaces that are touching.
What is friction?
200
An energy source that has limited amounts and not easily replaced.
What is nonrenewable energy?
200
An inexhaustible (always available) energy resource.
What is solar energy?
300
Energy that is stored between an object and the earth.
What is gravitational potential energy?
300
The energy that sound carries.
What is sound energy?
300
Energy used to cook food, or warms a room using a space heater.
What is thermal energy?
300
THE DAILY DOUBLE: Gasoline, fuel oil, diesel, and kerosene.
What are fuels made from petroleum?
300
Thermal energy from inside the earth.
What is geothermal energy?
400
Energy stored in objects that are compressed or stretched.
What is elastic potential energy?
400
The energy due to the motion of particles that make up an object.
What is thermal energy?
400
Energy that does not have a specific use.
What is waste energy?
400
Energy that is used by half of all homes in the United States to heat homes.
What is natural gas?
400
Materials that come from plants and animals over hundreds of years.
What is biomass?
500
Food, gasoline, and other substances stored.
What is chemical potential energy?
500
The energy that electromagnetic waves carry.
What is radiant energy or light energy?
500
Energy can be transformed from one form to another, though can not be created or destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation of energy?
500
Produces an incredible amount of energy and less costly.
What is nuclear energy?
500
Reducing the rate at which all energy sources are used.
What is conservation of energy?
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