Energy Transfer
Transfer of thermal energy that occurs when two substances of different temperatures touch
What is conduction?
Energy of motion
What is kinetic energy?
Resources replaced by natural means in a short period of time
What is renewable?
In this Pixar film, the city of Monstropolis generates its electricity by harvesting the screams of children
What is Monsters Inc.?
Law stating that energy can be neither created nor destroyed but just changes form
What is the Law of conservation of energy?
The thermal energy exchange between two objects until they reach the same temperature
What is heat transfer?
Energy that is stored in a system or object
What is potential energy?
What is nonrenewable?
The steam trains on the Disneyland Railroad use this type of fuel made from recycled cooking oil
What is biomass?
Anything that has volume and mass
What is matter?
The transfer of energy by the movement of electromagnetic waves
What is radiation?
The energy stored in the chemical bonds of a substance
What is chemical potential energy?
How long something can last
What is sustainability?
On all Disney rollercoasters, friction converts mechanical energy into this
What is thermal energy?
The material through which a wave travels
What is a medium?
Heat transfer caused by the rising of hotter, and falling of cooler fluids
What is convection?
The energy stored in an object as a result of its shape
What is elastic potential energy?
Resources that exist in the environment without human intervention
What is natural resources?
Solar power is utilized at Disneyland Resort atop the attraction based on this Pixar film in Radiator Springs
What is Cars?
A group of interacting elements forming a complex whole
What is a system?
The total kinetic energy of the tiny particles that make up matter
What is thermal energy?
The energy stored in an object due to its position
What is gravitational potential energy?
Gases in the atmosphere that trap heat within the atmopshere
What are greenhouse gases?
A former Epcot attraction, The Universe of Energy, took guests on a journey to the dinosaur age to see how these were formed
What is fossil fuels?
The average kinetic energy of all the particles in a material
What is temperature?