Types of Energy
This type of energy is produced when the temperature rises.
What is heat (thermal) energy?
Charging your phone
What is electrical to chemical?
This type of system uses water to turn turbines.
True or false? Energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is true?
A rollercoaster before it falls has this type of energy.
What is potential energy?
Wind, water, pedaling a bike
What is mechanical energy?
Burning wood
What is chemical or mechanical to thermal (heat) energy?
Carefully controlled reactions release immense amounts of heat.
What is nuclear energy?
Energy is...
What is the ability to do work?
In a meltdown, this happens.
What is an overheated core melts the protective steel and radiation is released?
Radiant energy gives off this.
What is light?
Coffee maker
What is electrical to thermal (heat) energy?
Burning oil, gas, or coal to generate electricity.
What are fossil fuels?
The difference between kinetic and potential energy.
What is kinetic energy is movement while potential energy is stored?
This type of disease is linked to high levels of radiation exposure.
What is cancer?
Gas, oil, methane
What is chemical energy?
Eating food
What is chemical to mechanical energy?
The type of resources that we don't run out of.
What are renewable or inexhaustible resources?
True or false: wind and water are the only two types of renewable resources.
What is false?
Damns are an example of which kind of energy? Kinetic or potential?
What is potential energy?
This type of energy results from fission of Uranium.
What is nuclear energy?
Wind turbine
What is mechanical to electrical energy?
The only type of energy production that does not use a turbine.
What is solar energy?
Energy can be measured in this unit.
What are joules (J)?
This is what they do with "spent" fuel rods in a nuclear reactor.
What is they bury the waste in containers underwater?