Energy Vocabulary
Forms of Energy
The Transfer of Energy
Renewable Energy
Nonrenewable Energy
100
Energy is the ability to do __________
What is Work?
100
This type of energy travels in transverse waves.
What is radiant energy?
100
The transformation in a radiometer.
What is radiant to mechanical?
100
The renewable resource that does not trace back to the sun.
What is geothermal energy?
100
This is the most used energy source for electricity in the United States.
What is coal?
200
It is stored energy.
What is potential energy?
200
Heat travels from atoms ________
What is Vibrating?
200
It is the transformation in a Newton's Cradle starting with the ball being held up.
What is gravitational to mechanical, sound, and thermal?
200
It is the main energy source from the sun.
What is solar energy?
200
This is the only nonrenewable energy source that is not a fossil fuel.
What is Uranium?
300
A resource that is replaced in a relatively short time.
What is a renewable resource?
300
Food is an example of this type of energy
What is chemical energy?
300
The transformation when a flashlight is turned on.
What is chemical to radiant to thermal?
300
They are the two renewable resources that power turbines without burning something to make electricity.
What are wind and hydropower?
300
This is another name for oil.
What is petroleum?
400
Energy in motion.
What is kinetic energy?
400
A rubber band pulled back is this type of energy.
What is elastic energy?
400
It is the energy transformation when you play a game on your phone.
What is chemical to radiant, sound, and thermal?
400
It is the energy made when trees and brush are burned.
What is biomass?
400
This energy source is mainly used for chemical and industrial reasons.
What is natural gas (propane)?
500
Energy stored in the nucleus of an atom.
What is nuclear energy?
500
The two Es in MRS CHENGE.
What are electrical and elastic?
500
It is the energy transformation when you turn on a fan.
What is electrical to mechanical, sound, thermal?
500
This energy source is the heat from magma under the Earth's surface.
What is geothermal energy?
500
It is the only solid nonrenewable resource.
What is coal?
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