Energy Sources
This type of energy is associated with objects in motion.
What is kinetic energy?
We say that this type of energy is stored energy.
What is potential energy?
These are the three different ways in which thermal energy can be transferred.
What are radiation, conduction, and convection?
This is the type of pressure found at the Equator due to the uneven heating of the Earth.
What is low pressure?
This is the name for the dry area that forms on the leeward side of a mountain.
What is a rain shadow desert?
This type of potential energy is stored in items that have been compressed or stretched.
What is elastic potential energy?
This type of energy is due to vibrations transferred through fluids.
What is sound energy?
This is what happens to the particles in a substance when the temperature increases.
What is move faster and spread apart?
This is the name of the ocean current that carries warm water from the Equator up the East coast of the U.S. and over to Europe.
What is the Gulf Stream?
This is the name for the side of a mountain that receives high amounts of precipitation and is much cooler than the other side.
What is the windward side of the mountain?
This type of energy is stored because of an object's position.
What is gravitational potential energy?
These two factors effect the gravitational potential energy of an object.
What are height and mass?
This is why hot fluids rise and cold fluids sink.
What is hot fluids are less dense and therefore rise abouve cold, more dense fluids?
This is the driving force behind convection currents in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is the uneven heating of the Earth?
This is the reason that water stays warmer at night than the land.
What is water retains heat longer than air?
This type of energy is associated with charged particles.
What is electrical energy?
These two factors effect the kinetic energy of an object.
What are mass and speed?
This form of thermal energy transfer is responsible for ocean and wind currents.
What is convection?
This is the term used for the apparent curving of global winds due to the rotation of the Earth.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
These are the terms used to describe the pattern of onshore and offshore winds that occur daily in coastal areas.
What are sea breeze and land breeze?
This energy is stored in the bonds between atoms and molecules.
What is chemical potential energy?
This form of energy is usually given off when one form of energy transfers to another type of energy.
What is thermal energy?
This type of thermal energy transfer is responsible for allowing energy from the sun to warm the Earth.
What is radiation?
These are the two aspects of deep ocean currents that are represented by the term: thermohaline.
What are temperature and salinity?
This is the name for the local wind that forms at night in a mountainous region. Cool air begins to sink down the mountain into the valley at night.
What are mountain breezes?