Energy Vocabulary
Stored energy.
What is potential energy?
The ability to do work, or cause change.
What is energy?
One form of energy changing to another.
What is an energy transformation?
A resource that can be reused constantly without running out.
what is a renewable resource?
An energy source formed from dead plants and animal remains.
What is a fossil fuel?
A change, energy changing from one form to another.
What is an energy transformation?
Energy in motion.
What is kinetic energy?
A roller coaster sitting at the top of the tracks, then dropping.
What is a potential to kinetic energy transformation?
Dams using the flow of water to power a generator.
What is hydroelectric energy?
Thick, black, liquid fossil fuel.
What is oil?
Any resource that can be replaced by nature, such as water, soil, and living resources.
What is renewable energy?
Heat energy due to the fast speed of the subatomic parts of the atom.
What is thermal energy?
A toaster converting energy.
What is an electrical to thermal energy transformation?
Wind turning a turbine to produce electricity.
What is wind energy?
When a thick, black, sticky substance is pumped out of the ground.
What is refining oil?
Fuel formed hundreds of millions of years ago from the remains of dead plants and animals.
What are fossil fuels?
Stored in the nucleus of an atom and is released during this energy's reaction.
What is nuclear energy?
When you eat, your body converts the energy in your food to energy you need to move.
What is a chemical to mechanical energy transformation?
The burning of wood to produce thermal energy.
What is biomass energy?
Splitting of an atom's nucleus into two nuclei.
What is nuclear fission?
Energy produced by the rise and fall of ocean tides.
What is tidal energy?
When you receive a shock from a metal doorknob you experience this energy.
What is electrical energy?
A match burning.
What is a mechanical to chemical to thermal energy transformation?
Pumping water through pipes inside the Earth's crust to produce thermal energy.
What is geothermal energy?
A fossil fuel that is a mixture of methane, and other gases.
What is natural gas?