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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Energy | the ability to do work or cause a change. |
| Kinetic Energy | Energy an object has due to its motion. |
| Potential Energy | The energy that an object has because of his position or shape. |
| Combustion | The process in which a fuel burns because it combines rapidly with oxygen. |
| Energy Efficiency | an expression of how much of the energy put into a system does useful work. |
| Renewable Energy | Resources nearly always available on earths surface |
| Nonrenewable Energy | Once these resources are used up, they are gone forever. |
| Electricity | Energy made available by a flow of an electrical charge. |
| Strip Mining | Extracting of a mineral using to strip layers of rocks and soil . |
| Subsurface Mining | Digging deep shafts in the ground to find and remove a mineral. |
| petroleum | Dark, Liquid fossil made up of carbohydrates. |
| petrochemicals | chemical compound derived from oil to make product |
| oil sands | The deposit of clay and moist sand containing bitument. |
| oil shale | rock filled with a mixture of carbohydrates |
| Methane Hydrate | ice-like solid that consists of molecules of methane within a crystal network of molecules |
| acid drainage | 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 goals |
| nuclear energy | the energy that holds the three particles together in the nucleus |
| nuclear fission | splitting of an atoms nucleus into two smaller nuclei |
| nuclear reactor | generates electricity by controlled fission reactions. |
| meltdown | when fuel rods produce so much heat they melt. |
| nuclear waste | radioactive material left over from the product |
| nuclear fusion | small nuclei forced together to form a heavier nucleus. |