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Types of
Types of Transfer
Units
Renewable or Not
Electricity
100
Two categories
What is potential and kinetic?
100
A form of energy. The flow of energy from a higher-temperature substance to a lower-temperature substance.
What is heat?
100
SI unit for work and energy.
What is a joule?
100
Petroleum
What is a nonrenewable energy source (fassil fuel)?
100
The movement of charge carriers.
What is current?
200
Stored in chemical bonds of molecules.
What is potential chemical energy?
200
Transfer of heat through the movement of warmed matter through a fluid.
What is convection?
200
Capable of raising 1 pound of water 1 degree F.
What is a Btu?
200
Hydropower
What is a renewable energy source?
200
Materials that do not allow electrons to flow freely.
What is an insulator?
300
Stored in nucleus of an atom.
What is potential nuclear energy?
300
The transfer of heat from one place to another through electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
300
Capable of raising 1 gram of water 1 degree C.
What is a calorie?
300
Solar
What is a renewable energy source?
300
The difference in charge or potential energy of two points.
What is voltage?
400
Results from the vibration and movement of atoms and molecules.
What is thermal energy?
400
The transfer of heat within a substance through particle to particle collisions.
What is thermal conduction?
400
The measure of a substance's ability to absorb thermal energy.
What is specific heat capacity?
400
Natural gas
What is a nonrenewable energy source (fossil fuel)?
400
Measure of the opposition to electricity.
What is the ohm?
500
travels in longitudinal waves that expand and compress the substances it travels through.
What is sound energy?
500
The measure of the average kinetic energy of the molecules of a substance.
What is temperature?
500
Power: 1 joule per second (hint: electricity).
What is a watt?
500
Uranium
What is a nonrenewable energy source?
500
Produces electricity through a chemical reaction.
What is a battery?