Energy
the energy an object has due to its motion
What is kinetic energy?
The force that one surface exerts on another surface when two surfaces rub against each other.
What is friction?
Coal, oil, or natural gas that forms over millions of years from the remains of ancient organisms: burned to release energy. organic compound that contains only carbon and hydrogen atoms.
What are fossil fuels?
A substance that provides energy, such as heat, light, or motion.
What is fuel?
The splitting of an atom's nucleus into two nuclei. The splitting of the nucleus.
What is Nuclear Fission?
Stored Energy
What is potential energy?
A change from one form of energy to another.
What is an energy transformation?
organic compound that contains only carbon and hydrogen atoms.
What are hydrocarbons?
Fuel made from living things (leaves, trash, manure, etc.)
What are biomass fuels?
potential energy stored in an atom's nucleus. ( energy that powers the sun)
What is nuclear energy?
the ability to do work or cause change
What is energy?
potential energy stored in a chemical bonds . the energy is released during chemical reactions
What is chemical energy?
A factory in which crude oil is heated and separated into fuels and other products.
What is a refinery?
Electricity produced by the kinetic energy of water moving over a waterfall or dam.
What is hydroelectric power?
A Cadmium rod in a nuclear reactor use to absorb neutrons from fission reactions.
What is a control rod?
a form of energy that travels through space in waves ( EX: X rays , radio waves , microwaves.)
What is electromagnetic energy?
the total kinetic and potential energy of the particles with in an object that is at rest.
What is thermal energy?
Methane is an example of which nonrenewable resource
What is natural gas?
Energy from the sun
What is solar energy?
The part of the a nuclear reactor in which nuclear fission occurs.
What is the reactor vessel?
transfer of energy that occurs when a force makes an object move; measured in joules
What is work?
a scientific principle that states as energy is transformed it is neither lost nor created but conserved
What is the law of conservation of energy?
A compound made from oil used to make plastics, metals, and cosmetics.
What are petrochemicals?
The intense heat energy of Earth's interior that warms magma.
What is geothermal energy?
A Uranium rod that undergoes fission in a nuclear reactor.
What is a fuel rod?