Energy Vocabulary
Forms of Energy
The Transfer of Energy
Renewable Energy
Non-renewable Resources
100
The ability to do work.
What is energy?
100
Has the potential to do work
What is potential energy?
100
When something with the potential to move is set into motion
What is Potential to Kinetic?
100
Energy from heat within the earth
What is Geothermal Energy?
100
Energy form from ancient sea plants and animals
What is Fossil Fuel?
200
Energy captured from the sun's rays
What is solar energy?
200
Moving electrical charges in something
What is electrical energy?
200
Albert Einstein's theory of destroyting matter to make energy
What is Energy and Matter?
200
Energy from the sun's rays
What is Solar Energy?
200
A type of fossil fuel that is mined from the earth
What is Coal?
300
Energy that comes from heat within the earth
What is geothermal energy?
300
Energy associated with motion and position of an object
What is mechanical energy?
300
Saving or not being wasteful with energy
What is Conserving Energy?
300
Energy from moving air
What is Wind Energy?
300
A non-renewable resource that is drawn the ground and used for transportation
What is Petroleum(Oil)
400
Where energy comes from
What is energy source?
400
Energy stored in the nucleaus of an atom
What is nuclear energy?
400
When on form of energy is converted into another and no energy is destroyed
What is The Conversion of Energy?
400
Energy from waste, garbage, and wood
What is Bio-mass Energy
500
Energy in motion
What is kinetic energy?
500
A form of radiant energy that travels in waves
What is Electromagnetic Energy
500
when the pendulum moves and encounters friction at the pivot of a string
What is Energy and Friction?
500
Energy from water
What is Hydro-power Energy
500
A mixture of methane and other gasses. (A similar form as petroleum)
What is Natural gasses