Types of Energy
Energy that uses electricity
Electrical energy
What is the material called when it doesn’t allow electricity to pass through?
Insulator
What is the definition of renewable resources?
Resources that can be replaced at the same rate we use them.
Resources that cannot be replaced as fast as we use them
Food
Chemical to mechanical
Heat energy
Thermal energy
What materials allow electricity to pass through?
Water and metal
Why is renewable energy better than Nonrenewable energy?
We won’t run out of resources
Where do fossil fuels come from?
Underground, plants and animals
Coffee machine
Solar, electrical, thermal, chemical
Kinetic energy or mechanical energy
A circuit with one lightbulb, one battery, and one wire
A simple circuit
What are the renewable types of energy?
Solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric
What are the nonrenewable types of energy?
Nuclear, fossil fuels, coal, petroleum, natural gas
A torch
Chemical energy to radiant energy
Energy you listen to
Sound energy
What turns electricity on and off?
A switch
Why doesn’t everyone use renewable resources?
They are expensive
Uranium
A leaf
Solar energy to chemical energy
Energy from mixing things together
Chemical energy
A circuit with multiple lightbulbs and multiple wires
A parallel circuit
What type of energy uses heat from the earths core?
Geothermal
What is the transformation of coal to energy we can use?
A fan
Electrical energy to mechanical energy to thermal energy