Types of Energy
The energy bodies have in movement
What is kinetic energy?
Type of energy that uses the Sun to generate electricity and heat
What is Solar Energy?
What is produced by the movement of charges inside a conductor
What is Electric Energy?
A type of energy that is regenerated easily and doesn't run out
What is Renewable Energy?
The energy bodies have due to its position or the deformation it experiences
What is Potential Energy?
This is a liquid substance formed by a mixture of hydrocarbons
What is Petroleum/Oil?
This type of energy is generated by the kinetic energy that wind produces
What is Eolic Energy
The Spanish word for the verb "to store" in English
What is Almacenar?
A type of energy that is consumed quicker than is generated in nature
What is Non-renewable energy?
The sum of kinetic and potential energy
What is Mechanical Energy?
Extracted from deposits found underground; we use this to heat houses
What is Natural Gas
The type of energy that comes from the potential energy of water stored at high altitudes
What is Hydraulic Energy?
A plant or animal material used as fuel to produce electricity or heat
What is Biomass
Anything that permits the production of energy directly or by some means of transformation
What is Energy Source?
The energy a body has when it deforms
What is Elastic Potential Energy?
a chemical element extracted from underground to produce nuclear energy
What is Uranium
Uses the heat from underground to power generators
What is Geothermal Energy?
What is stored in the nucleus of atoms
What is Nuclear Energy
What is Potential Energy= mass x gravity x height?
the energy a body has when elevated to a certain height above the ground
What is Gravitational Energy?
A black substance formed by the fossilization of the dead remains of plants
What is Carbon/Coal
The energy created by the tides of the sea
What is Tidal Energy?
The "ch" sound in the word "chemistry"
What is K?
The capacity that bodies have to produce changes in themselves or in other bodies
What is Energy