Vocab
Ability to cause change.
What is energy?
This kind of energy is carried by an electric current.
What is Electric energy?
This is the most common kind of renewable source, transforming potential energy in water to kinetic energy, then later to electric energy.
What is Hydroelectric power?
This is the most common kind of non-renewable energy.
What are fossil fuels?
This transforms mechanical energy into thermal energy.
What is Friction?
Force that resists motion of two surfaces that are touching
What is Friction?
This kind of energy is stored in the nucleus of an atom.
What is Nuclear energy?
This kind of energy is often seen in areas where turbines are pushed by the air.
What is Wind Energy?
This is the a common component in fossil fuel, gasoline, diesel, and kerosene.
What is Petroleum?
Which factors determine an object's Kinetic Energy?
What are its Mass and Speed?
Energy transfer to an object by a force, making the object move in the direction of the force
What is work?
This kind of energy is stored energy due to the interactions between objects or particles.
What is Potential energy?
This kind of energy is made from living organisms.
What is Biomass?
Global warming is a result of greater quantities of this being introduced in our atmosphere due to burning fossil fuels.
What is Carbon dioxide?
When a ball is thrown upward, it has the least kinetic energy here.
What is at its highest point?
Transmitted by electromagnetic waves
This kind of energy is the total energy of an object or group of objects due to large-scale motions and interactions.
What is Mechanical energy?
What is an inexhaustible energy resource?
This does not release the typical pollutants, but instead creates things like toxic waste which can be harmful to living organisms.
What is Nuclear energy?
This energy increases when you compress a spring.
States that energy can be transformed from one form into another or transferred from one region to another, but energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
This kind of energy is the sum of kinetic and potential energy of the particles in matter due to their random motion
What is Thermal energy?
Renewable energy makes up this percent of the energy used, according to a survey conducted in 2015.
What is 10%
In order to slow down the use of non-renewable energy resources, humans need to do this.
What is conserve energy?
This tells us energy can never be created or destroyed, but it can be transformed.
What is the law of conservation of energy?