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Energy Vocabulary
Forms of Energy
The Transfer of Energy
Renewable Energy
Nonrenewable Energy
100
Associated with objects that can be stretched or compressed.
What is Elastic potential energy?
100
Energy that is not "in use" and that is available to do work.
What is potential energy?
100
Chemical to electrical.
What is battery?
100
Every day, the sun radiates an enormous amount of energy.
What is solar energy?
100
A fossil fuel often called crude oil.
What is petroleum?
200
The practice of reducing energy use.
What is Energy conservation?
200
Electromagnetic energy that travels in transverse.
What is radiant energy?
200
nuclear energy to radiant energy.
What is the sun?
200
heat within the earth
What is geothermal energy?
200
A fossil fuel like petroleum and coal.
What is natural gas?
300
An energy-rich substance formed from the remains of organisms.
What is fossil fuels?
300
Potential energy that an object has as a result of its position.
What is Gravitational potential energy?
300
radiant energy to chemical energy.
What is a green plant?
300
any organic matter that can be used as an energy source.
What is biomass?
300
A fossil fuel formed from the remains of plants that lived and died millions of years ago.
What is coal?
400
A natural resource that is not replaced as it is used.
What is Nonrenewable resource?
400
the movement of objects and substances from one place to another.
What is Mechanical energy?
400
kinetic energy of moving water to electrical energy.
What is hydro-power?
400
energy that comes from the force of moving water.
What is hydro-power?
400
An energy-rich gas that is related to petroleum and natural gas.
What is propane?
500
Energy is neither created nor destroyed, but can be changed.
What is Law of Conservation of Energy?
500
The movement of energy through substances in longitudinal waves.
What is sound energy?
500
electrical energy into light, heat, and sound.
What is television?
500
simply air in motion.
What is wind?