Forms of Energy
This type of energy is carried by electromagnetic waves.
Radiant Energy
These are the remains of ancient organisms that can be burned as an energy source.
What are fossil fuels?
This is an energy source that cannot be used up.
What is an inexhaustible energy resource?
At this point on the diagram, the potential energy is zero.
What is A or E?
This is the ability to cause change.
What is energy?
This type of energy is stored in the nucleus of an atom.
What is nuclear energy?
Gasoline, fuel, oil, diesel, and kerosene are made of this.
What is petroleum?
This is the energy that comes from the Earth.
What is geothermal energy?
At this point on the diagram, the kinetic energy is zero.
What is point C?
This is a force that resists the sliding of two surfaces that are touching.
What is friction?
This type of energy is stored due to the interactions between objects or particles.
What is potential energy?
Acid rain is often formed by this combining with water vapor.
What are pollutants?
These are the two inexhaustible energy resources.
What are solar energy and wind energy?
This is occurring when the ball is at position B.
What is kinetic energy is decreasing and potential energy is increasing?
This law states that energy can be transformed from one form into another or transferred from one region to another, but energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
This type of energy is due to motion.
What is kinetic energy?
This element is broken apart in nuclear power plants.
What is uranium?
This is created from biomass in order to reduce the use of gasoline.
What are biofuels?
This is occurring to the ball at point D.
What is kinetic energy is increasing and potential energy is decreasing?
This is how coal is formed.
What is organisms gradually buried under layers of sediment and increasing temperatures change them into petroleum and natural gas?
This type of energy is due to the motion of particles that make up an object.
What is thermal energy?
This by-product can remain radioactive for thousands of years.
What is nuclear waste?
This generates electricity from falling water.
What is hydroelectric energy?
This is why there is more potential energy at point C than at point A.
It is higher off the ground.
This type of energy is often referred to as waste energy.
What is thermal energy?