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Forms of Energy
Vocabulary terms for Forms of Energy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the ability to change matter or the ability to do work? | Energy |
| What is energy of motion that depends on speed and mass? | Kinetic Energy |
| What is stored energy when matter is not moving and is based on its position or shape? | Potential Energy |
| What is Energy stored in matter because of its chemical makeup? | Chemical Energy |
| What is Energy due to charged matter? | Electrical Energy |
| What is Energy carried by electromagnetic radiation? | Radiant Energy |
| What is Energy of matter caused by its position or its motion? | Mechanical Energy |
| What is Energy that is related to heat and the temperature of matter? | Thermal Energy |
| What is Energy associated with changes in the nucleus of an atom? | Nuclear Energy |
| What is a natural resource that can be converted by humans into other forms of energy in order to do useful work? | Energy Resource |
| What are the nonrenewable energy resources that form in the Earth's crust over millions of years from the buried remains of once-living organisms? | Fossil Fuels |
| What are the natural resources that cannot be replaced or that can be replaced only over thousands or millions of years? | Nonrenewable resources |
| What are the natural resources that can be used and replaced over a relatively short time? | Renewable resources |
| What is the energy caused by the sun's radiation? | Solar Energy |
| What causes the energy known as hydropower? | Water Energy |
| What is the energy caused by wind currents? | Wind Energy |
| What is the energy caused from the heating of the Earth's crust? | Geothermal Energy |
| What is the energy caused from the burning of organic matter to release energy? | Biomass |
| What type of resource exists in such large supply that it is considered almost limitless? | Inexhaustible |
| Digesting of food is an example of what type of energy? | Chemical |
| The turning of a bicycle pedal to make it move is what type of energy? | Mechanical |
| Flipping a light switch and causing a light to turn on uses what type of energy? | Electrical |
| Dissolving tea in a hot cup of water uses what type of energy? | Thermal |
| Cooking a meal in a microwave uses what type of energy? | Radiant |
| Sitting in a car at the top of the roller coaster uses what type of energy? | Potential |
| Speeding down the hill of a roller coaster uses what type of energy? | Kinetic |
| What is the energy transformation to produce electricity with hydropower? | Potential Energy of water behind Dam, Kinetic gravitational energy of falling water, water turns turbine, turbine turns generator, generator produces electricity. |
| What is the energy transformation to produce electricity with coal? | Chemical energy in coal, coal is burned, heats the water, steam turns the turbine, turbine turns the generator, generator produces electricity. |
| What is the energy transformation to produce electricity with a wind turbine? | Wind turns the blade into mechanical energy, shaft turns the generator, generator produces electricity. |
| What are the renewable energy resources? | biomass, geothermal, wind, solar, hydropower, |
| What are the nonrenewable energy resources? | coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear uranium |
| What source produces the most important form of energy for life? | The Sun |
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