Energy Fundamentals
The opposite of nonrenewable is this term, which means certain resources can't be used up completely.
What is inexhaustible?
What is thermal energy?
These devices can transform radiant energy into electrical energy.
What are photovoltaic devices?
Describe the energy transformation involved when a car is moving.
What is chemical, kinetic, thermal?
These are the 2 disadvantages of using windmills.
What are killing birds and noisy?
Solar energy, wind energy, and geothermal energy are _____________ resources, meaning they are an "alternate" to traditional fossil fuels.
What are alternative resources?
This is energy carried by an electric current that is used to heat metal.
What is electrical energy?
Matter contained within living organisms is termed this.
What is biomass?
Describe one way that thermal energy can be transformed.
Answers will vary.
This is the main disadvantage of solar energy.
What is the cost?
These are the 2 most important energy resources.
What are the sun and earth's interior?
This is energy carried by light.
What is radiant energy?
This law says that energy can't be created or destroyed; it just changes form.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
Explain how energy is transformed when we are listening to music.
What is electrical, kinetic, electrical?
Hydroelectric power plants seem terrific, but they have this important drawback.
What is they destroy aquatic ecosystems?
This is how electrical energy is generated using a turbine.
Energy that is stored in the nucleus of an atom that can be transformed into electrical energy.
What is nuclear energy?
For energy to be ____________, it means it transfers from one object to another or transforms from one form of energy to another.
What is transferred?
Explain how fossil fuels transform energy (from creation to burning).
What is radiant, chemical, kinetic, thermal?
What is radiant, chemical, potential, kinetic, thermal?
The main disadvantage of using fossil fuels is that fossil fuels are this ____________, which means they aren't easily replaced.
What is nonrenewable?
Describe how ocean waves can be used to generate electricity.
What is the following: as waves rise, mechanical energy can be converted into electrical energy with the help of a turbine.
____________ energy is energy in motion, while _____________ energy is stored and may become in motion based on its position.
What is kinetic; potential?
This is the energy within earth that can be used to generate thermal energy from nuclear energy.
What is geothermal energy?
Describe the energy transformation involved when an athlete eats a protein bar to prepare for and complete a race.
What is chemical, potential, kinetic, thermal?
*Other answers are possible; this is one.
Describe 3 disadvantages of using nuclear energy.
What is they are costly to store, they produce radioactive waste, and uranium is nonrenewable?