Conserving Energy
Types of Energy
Renewable Energy
Non-renewable Energy
Extra Facts
100
Use these instead of air conditioners
What are fans?
100
The energy of movement
What is kinetic energy?
100
The sun's energy
What is solar energy?
100
Energy sources made from prehistoric plants and animals
What are fossil fuels?
100
Greenhouse gases cause this
What is the greenhouse effect?
200
You need the energy of this many batteries too make one battery
What is 50?
200
You can never do this to energy
What is destroy it?
200
This moving air can turn a turbine
What is wind energy?
200
These are the three main non-renewable energy sources in alphabetical order
What are coal, natural gas, and oil?
200
We must do this to oil to release its potential energy
What is burn it?
300
This controls the heat given off by your furnace
What is a thermostat?
300
This is the energy of a coiled spring or stretched elastic
What is potential energy?
300
A turbine must be attached to one of these if you're going to produce electricity
What is a generator?
300
These atoms are split when producing nuclear power
What is uranium?
300
As the Earth warms, this may happen to coastal areas
What is flooding?
400
This uses less energy than your oven
What is a microwave?
400
A battery's stored energy changes from this to electricity
What is chemical energy?
400
If we're going to use the sun's energy at night, we need to do this with that energy
What is store it?
400
We have been using fossil fuels for about this many years (plus/minus 50 years)
What is 200?
400
A battery operated flashlight has a three way energy change, from ? to ? to ? and ?
What is chemical to electricity to light and heat?
500
When a group of people uses only one car to get somewhere, they have formed one of these
What is a carpool?
500
A bullet has kinetic energy when the gun is fired; these two forms of energy are also released
What are sound and heat (or light)?
500
You can use the energy of this moving water if you live near the ocean
What are tides?
500
Wood is classified as this type of eneryg source
What is semi-renewable?
500
Two greenhouse gases
What are carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide?
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