Alternative Energy Sources
Forms of Energy
Energy Transformations
Heat & Heat Transfer
Using Heat to do
Work
100
Energy that harnesses the power of moving air
What is wind energy?
100
The energy stored in food or fuel
What is potential chemical?
100
Eating food
What is chemical to thermal to mechanical?
100
The "hot" or "cold" measurement of the average kinetic energy in an object
What is temperature?
100
This is what happens to heat that doesn't do work
What is wasted?
200
The energy that harnesses the sun's radiation
What is solar energy?
200
The energy in a boulder rolling down a hill
What is mechanical kinetic?
200
Using a blow dryer
What is electrical to thermal and acoustic?
200
The flow of kinetic energy from "hot" to "cold"
What is heat?
200
A machine that does work by converting thermal energy into mechanical energy
What is a heat engine?
300
Alternative energy sources are "alternatives" to this type of energy
What are fossil fuels?
300
Energy holding together particles in the nucleus of an atom
What is nuclear potential?
300
Turning on a light
What is electrical to electromagnetic and thermal?
300
The two SI units of temperature
What are Celsius and Kelvin?
300
The first law of thermodynamics
What is heat is neither created or destroyed, it only flows or changes forms? (Same as Law of Conservation of Energy)
400
Energy source that harnesses chemical energy stored in organic material
What is biomass?
400
Energy of flowing electrons
What is electrical kinetic?
400
Driving a car
What is chemical to mechanical, thermal and acoustic?
400
Heat transfer by direct contact
What is conduction?
400
A machine that does work by forcing heat to move from cold to hot
What is a heat mover?
500
Energy that harnesses heat from within the earth
What is geothermal energy?
500
Radiant energy
What is electromagnetic kinetic?
500
Generating electricity at a hydroelectric dam
What is gravitational to mechanical to electrical?
500
Heat transfer through a fluid by rising and falling currents of heat
What is convection?
500
Calories measure the amount of heat in a substance. When heat is used to do work, however, it is measured like all energy, in this unit.
What is joules (J)?
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