Types of Energy
Energy due to motion.
What is Kinetic Energy?
Energy carried by sound waves
What is Sound Energy?
Law that says that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
Energy resource that is available in limited amounts or that is used faster than it can be replaced in nature.
What is Nonrenewable Energy Resource?
An energy resource that is replaced as fast as, or faster than it is used.
The ability to cause change.
What is Energy?
The energy stored in and released from the nucleus of an atom.
What is Nuclear Energy?
When energy moves from one object to another without changing form.
What is Energy Transfer?
Transfer of energy that occurs when a force makes an object move in the direction of the force.
What is Work?
Renewable energy source that harnesses the power of the wind by moving large turbines that turn the energy into electric energy.
What is Wind Energy?
Energy stored due to the interaction between objects or particles.
What is Potential Energy?
The sum of the potential energy and the kinetic energy in a system.
What is Mechanical energy?
When one form of energy is converted to another form of energy this occurs.
What is Energy Transformations?
This type of non-renewable resource splits uranium atoms in a process called nuclear fission.
What is Nuclear Energy?
A type of renewable energy source that comes from the sun.
What is Solar Energy?
Energy contained in chemical bonds and transformed during a chemical reaction.
What is Chemical Potential Energy?
A disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another without transferring matter.
What is a Wave?
a system that does not exchange matter or energy with the environment.
What is a Closed System?
Petroleum, Natural Gas, Propane, and coal are this type of non-renewable resource.
What is Fossil Fuels?
Renewable resource that channels the energy of falling water to spin turbine and turn it into electricity.
What is Hydroelectric Energy?
Energy in an electrical current.
What is Electric Energy?
Energy carried by electromagnetic waves.
What is Radiant Energy?
A system that exchanges matter or energy with the environment.
What is an Open System?
Wood, plants, manure and garbage are used to make this type of renewable energy.
What is Biomass Energy?
Thermal energy from the Earth's surface is transferred to water to create steam to produce this type of renewable energy.
What is Geothermal Energy?