Energy
This is the average kinetic energy of the molecules or atoms in a substance.
What is heat or thermal energy?
Photosynthesis is an example of this energy conversion.
What is light to chemical?
Electricity is the flow of these.
What are electrons?
These are the 4 nonrenewable resources?
What are coal, oil, natural gas, and uranium?
Heat always moves in this direction.
What is from hot to cold?
Food is an example of this.
What is chemical energy?
Candles make this type of energy conversion.
What is chemical to light and heat?
This often spins a turbine in power plants.
What is steam?
In many power plants the same process occurs. To start, we burn a fuel to create heat. These are the 4 possible fuels we could use for this.
What are coal, oil, natural gas, and biomass?
This is how the Earth is heated from the sun.
What is radiation?
This is made up of kinetic and potential energy.
What is mechanical energy?
Hydroelectric dams make this energy conversion.
What is mechanical to electrical or kinetic to electrical?
What is natural gas, nonrenewable resources, or fossil fuels?
These are the 5 renewable sources of energy?
What are wind, sun, biomass, geothermal, and water?
This creates "attack of the shower curtain"?
What is convection?
The ability to do work.
What is energy?
Running makes this energy conversion.
What is mechanical/kinetic to thermal or chemical to mechanica/kinetic?
These renewable resources have increased dramatically in the past 10 years?
What are solar and wind?
These 2 power plants do not need water as a resource?
What are solar and wind?
These do NOT allow heat and electricity through them easily?
What are insulators?
Splitting atoms at their nucleus.
What is fission/nuclear fission?
These 2 types of energy are often produced when it seems like energy is lost during a reaction?
What are sound and thermal?
This resource has declined in usage in the past 15 year?
What is coal?
These are 3 environmental issues associated with burning fossil fuels.
What are acid rain, climate change, ozone depletion, and smog?
This would heat an ice cube when it was sitting in your hand.
What is conduction?