Types of Energy
Total of potential and kinetic energy of all the particles in an object.
What is thermal energy?
Energy is constantly given off by this in the forms of light and heat.
What is the sun?
The three major fossil fuels.
What are coal, oil, and natural gas?
The average kinetic energy of the individual particles in matter.
What is temperature?
This law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the law of the conservation of energy?
Energy stored in the nucleus of an atom.
What is nuclear energy?
This kind of power is produced by flowing water.
What is hydroelectric?
Since fossil fuels take hundreds of millions of years to form, they are considered this type of resource.
The three common scales used to measure temperature.
What are Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin?
An object experiences this when some of its kinetic energy is transformed into thermal energy.
What is friction?
Potential energy stored in the chemical bonds that hold chemical compounds together.
What is chemical energy?
Large farms of these stand ready to be turned to produce pollution free energy.
What are windmills?
A factory in which crude oil is heated and separated into fuels and other products.
What is a refinery?
Thermal energy that is transferred from matter at a higher temperature to matter at a lower temperature is called this.
What is heat?
A change from one form of energy to another.
What is an energy transformation?
This type of energy is a combination of an objects kinetic and potential energy.
What is mechanical energy?
Wood, leaves, food wastes, and manure are examples of these kinds of fuels.
What are biomass fuels?
A solid fossil fuel formed from plant remains.
What is coal?
The transfer of heat from one particle of matter to another without the movement of the matter.
What is convduction?
The most common energy transformation is the transformation between these two types of energy.
What are potential and kinetic energy?
Sunlight is a form of this type of energy that travels in waves.
What is electromagnetic energy?
This kind of energy can be produced by magma boiling underground water.
What is geothermal energy?
Fuels contain chemical energy, which can be released by this term which is a synonym for "burning".
The transfer of heat by the movements of currents within water or air.
What is convection?
This man discovered that destroying a small amount of matter releases a huge amount of energy.
Who is Albert Einstein?