Vocabulary Part I
The ability to do work or cause change.
What is energy?
The kinetic or potential energy associated with the motion or position of an object.
What is mechanical energy?
The energy that comes from moving water.
What is hydropower?
Nuclear energy is a form of this type of energy.
What is potential energy?
The kind of energy transformation that occurs during the burning of wood.
What is chemical energy to thermal energy?
The energy of moving electrical charges.
What is electrical energy?
A form of potential energy that is stored in chemical bonds between atoms.
What is chemical energy?
The form of energy that flows through circuits is electrical energy or...
What is electricity?
Mechanical energy connects to the _____ AND motion of an object.
What is position?
The reason a pendulum stops swinging.
What is due to the force of friction?
Another name for oil or the products refined from oil; petroleum materials include diesel fuel, heating oil, etc.
What is petroleum?
The sources of nonrenewable energy are nuclear energy and _____.
What is fossil fuels?
The form of energy that powers _____ as they rotate is mechanical energy.
What is windmills?
Stored energy that results from the position or shape of an object.
What is potential energy?
The source of the stored energy in fossil fuels.
What is the sun?
The potential energy stored in the nucleus of an atom.
What is nuclear energy?
Besides electricity, _____ is another secondary energy source.
What is hydrogen?
These people calculate mechanical energy by adding potential energy plus kinetic energy.
Who are scientists?
When an archer pulls the string on a bow, this type of energy is stored in the stretched string.
What is elastic potential energy?
This is where nuclear energy is stored.
What is in the nucleus of an atom?
According to the _____, energy is neither created nor destroyed.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
Fuels that cannot be easily made or replenished; we can use up nonrenewable fuels; oil, natural gas, propane, uranium, and coal are nonrenewable fuels.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
The energy that an object has due to its motion.
What is kinetic energy?
The form of energy related to an object’s height.
What is gravitational potential energy?
This phenomenon causes the kinetic energy in the top to transform into potential energy.
What is friction?