Energy Vocabulary
Stored energy.
What is potential energy?
The movement of objects or substances from one place to another, wind is an example of this.
What is motion energy?
The sun.
What is nuclear to radiant?
The warmth you feel on a sunny day.
What is solar energy?
A thick, black liquid fossil fuel made from the remains of small animals.
What is oil?
The ability to do work.
What is energy?
Energy that is stored in the nucleus of an atom and released during nuclear reactions.
What is nuclear energy?
Jumping on a trampoline.
What is elastic potential energy to kinetic energy?
The thing that moves windmills to make electricity.
What is wind?
Another name for oil?
What is petroleum?
Any resource that can be replaced by nature in a short period of time, such as water, soil, and living resources.
What is a renewable resource?
Individual molecules moving about, hitting each other causing friction. This energy is always given off in any transformation.
What is thermal energy?
The highest point of a pendulum.
What is gravitational to motion?
Flowing water.
What is hydropower energy?
Energy caused by fission and fusion.
What is nuclear energy?
Fuels that are formed hundreds of millions of years ago from the remains of dead plants and animals.
What is a fossil fuel?
Movement of photons and other energy waves, also known as light.
What is radiant energy?
A pole vault jump.
What is elastic potential to gravitational to kinetic energy?
The fuels that were once made from things that were alive. (Ex. leaves, food waste, and manure.)
What are biomass fuels?
A mix of methane and other gases. Pipelines transport this.
What is natural gas?
A change, energy changing from one form to another.
What is energy transformation?
Energy that is stored that is released when it takes part in a reaction. Any time something is burned this is released.
What is chemical energy?
An earthquake.
What is potential to kinetic energy?
Hot water and steam inside the Earth.
What is geothermal energy?
A solid fossil fuel from plant remains.
What is coal?