Vocabulary
Renewable Resources
Forms of Energy
Vocabulary
Examples of energy
100
an energy source that can be replenished continually.
What is renewable resources?
100
The energy an object has due to motion
What is kinetic energy?
100
The energy that is carried by light.
What is radiant energy?
100
Sunlight shining on a tree.
What is solar energy?
200
Coal, natural gas, and oil are examples of ...
What is fossil fuels?
200
a renewable resource that includes solar wind and geothermal energy.
What is alternative resource?
200
The energy stored in an object because of its position
What is potential energy?
200
Coal burning in a power plant.
What are fossil fuels?
300
is a set of steam-powered fan blades that spines a generator a power plant.
What is turbine?
300
is a resource that cant be used up. An example is solar energy.
What is inexhaustible resource?
300
The ability to cause change.
What is energy?
300
The energy that is carried by an electric current?
What is electrical energy?
300
A boy eating a hamburger to fuel his body is an example of
What is Chemical energy?
400
Is an inexhaustible supply of energy generated by wind.
What is wind energy?
400
is a device that transforms radiant energy into electrical energy.
What is photovoltaic?
400
is the sum of of potential and kinetic energy that increases as its temperature increase.
What is thermal energy?
400
energy contained in the atomic nuclei
What is nuclear energy?
400
Turning the lights off, carpooling and installing solar panels are examples of
What is Conserving energy?
500
Almost 90 percent of electrical energy is generated by these.
What is power plants?
500
is heat energy generated and stored in the Earth
What is geothermal energy?
500
the energy stored in chemical bonds
What is chemical energy?
500
Energy that cannot be created or destroyed
What is the law of conservation of energy?
500
Food an biodegradable materials are examples of
What is biomass?
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