Energy Vocabulary
Forms of Energy
The Transfer of Energy
Renewable Sources of Energy
Nonrenewable Sources of Energy
100
The ability to do work.
What is Energy?
100
The movement of objects and Substances from one place to another.
What is Mechanical Energy?
100
Mechanical to Electric
What Are the energy transformation in a windmill?
100
Movement of wind that is renewable.
What is wind energy?
100
An energy source that can be replaced by nonrenewable fossil fuels.
What is an alternative energy source?
200
Energy from the sun that is Renewable.
What is Solar Energy?
200
Electromagnetic energy that travels in transverse waves.
What is Radiant Energy?
200
Electric to Radiant
What is the Energy transformation in a microwave?
200
Thermal energy that comes within the earth.
What is geothermal energy?
200
A natural resource that is not replaced as it is used. It takes long to replace.
What is a Nonrenewable resource?
300
Where Energy comes from.
What is an Energy Source?
300
The movement of energy through substances in longitudinal waves.
What is Sound Energy?
300
Chemical to Electric
What is the Energy transformation in a battery?
300
Energy and Fuels made from wood, leaves, food waste, and manure.
What is Biomass?
300
No it's , nonrenewable and it is a substance formed from dead organisms.
What is a fossil fuel and is it renewable?
400
Energy stored in the bonds of atoms and molecules
What is Chemical Energy?
400
The vibration and movement of the atoms and molecules within substances.
What is Thermal/Heat energy?
400
Mechanical to Sound
What is the Energy transformation in a piano?
400
Yes, because we can't really run out!
Is water renewable resource?
400
coal, oil, + natural gas
What is some examples of fossil fuels?
500
The movement of Electrons.
What is Electrical Energy?
500
Potential Energy associated with objects that could be stretched or compressed.
What is Elastic Potential Energy?
500
Chemical o Mechanical
What is the Energy Transformation in a person eating?
500
Geothermal + Nuclear energy.
What are two Renewable resources that don't originate from the sun?
500
Energy stored in the nucleus of an atom.
What is Nuclear Energy?
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