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Energy Vocabulary
Forms of Energy
The Transfer of Energy
Renewable Energy
Nonrenewable Energy
100
The ability to do work.
What is Energy?
100
Objects that can be stretched or compressed.
What is Elastic Potential Energy?
100
When one form of energy is converted to another, no energy is destroyed.
What is The law of conservation of energy?
100
The sun constantly gives off energy in the form of light and heat.
What is Solar Energy?
100
Thick black liquid fossil fuel.
What is Oil?
200
Energy from the sun.
What is Solar Energy?
200
Potential energy that depends on height.
What is Gravitational Potential Energy?
200
A change from one form of energy to another.
What is Energy Conversion?
200
Used to turn a turbine and generate electricity.
What is Wind?
200
Process of burning a fuel.
What is Combustion?
300
The movement of electrons.
What is What is Electrical Energy?
300
A push or a pull.
What is a Force?
300
Chemical to Electrical energy.
What is a Battery?
300
Turn a turbine and generate electricity in the same way steam and wind.
What is Flowing Water?
300
Solid fossil fuel formed from plant remains?
What is Coal?
400
Where energy comes from.
What is is an Energy Source?
400
Motion or position of an object.
What is Mechanical Energy?
400
Potential Energy to Kinetic Energy.
What is an Earthquake?
400
Fuels made from things once alive.
What is Biomass fuel?
400
Mixture of methane and other gasses.
What is Natural Gas?
500
The practice of reducing energy.
What is Energy Conservation?
500
Measure of energy of the particles in an object.
What is Thermal Energy?
500
Kinetic to Elastic Potential Energy.
What is a Pole Vault?
500
Unlimited source of cheap energy.
What is Geothermal Energy?
500
Energy rich chemical compounds.
What is Hydrocarbons?