Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
chapter 17
non renewable
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| energy | the ability to do work or cause a change |
| kinetic energy | is the energy that an object a particle has by reason of its motion |
| potential energy | energy that an object has because of its position or shape |
| combustion | the process in which a fuel burns because it combines rapidly with oxygen |
| energy efficiency | is an expression of how much of energy put into a system actually does useful work |
| renewable energy | nearly always available some where on earth is surface |
| nonrenewable | cannot be replaced |
| electricity | energy made available by the flow of an electric charge |
| strip mining | the extraction of a mineral by removing a strip of the layers of soil and rock on top of minerals deposits |
| subsurface mining | typically the practice of digging shafts deep in the ground to find and remove a mineral |
| petroleum | a dark liquid fossil fuel made up mostly of hydrocarbons |
| petrochemicals | chemicals compounds that are derived from oil and used to make product |
| oil sands | deposits of moist sand and clay containing bitumen |
| oil shale | is rock filled with a mixture of hydrocarbons |
| methane hydrate | is an ice like solid that consists of molecules of methane within a crystal network of water molecules |
| acid drainage | occurs when sulfide minerals in exposed rock surfaces react with oxygen and rainwater to produce sulfuric acid |
| energy conservation | the practice of reducing energy use to meet those goal |
| nuclear energy | the energy that holds these particles together in the nucleus |
| nuclear fission | the splitting of an atoms nucleus into smaller nuclei |
| nuclear reactor | a nuclear power plants |
| meltdown | the fuel rods produced so much heat that they melted |
| nuclear waste | nuclear power plants |
| nuclear fusion | reactions generate the energy released by the sun |
Created by:
user-1997174
Popular Science sets