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what are the renewable resources?   solar enjegy, wind, thermal enegy, hydropower, geothermal  
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what are the non-renewable resources?   oil, gas, coal, patrolium, natural gas  
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what are fossil fuels?   a nonrenewable resource formed from the remains of organisms that lived long ago  
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what are the energy forms?   thermal, sound, nuclear, mechanical, chemical, electrical, light  
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what are the energy states?   potential, kinetic  
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what is friction?   the property that causes objects to resist being moved across each other  
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what are four factors of friction?   soft materials, larger surfaces, rough surfaces, high pressure  
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what is the work calculation?   force x distance= work  
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what is a closed system ?   a group of objects that transfer enegy only to each other  
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what is the law of concervation of energy?   energy cannot be created nor destroyed  
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what is a wave?   a disturbance that transfers energy from place to place  
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what is a mechanical wave?   a wave that requires a medium through which to travel  
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what are transverse waves?   waves that move the medium at right angles to the direction in which the waves are traveling  
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what is a crest?   the highest part of a transverse wave  
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what is a trough ?   the lowest part of a transverse wave  
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what is a longitudinal wvae?   a wave that moves the particles of a medium parallel to the direction in which waves are traveling  
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what is a medium?   the material through which a wave travels  
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what is amplitude?   the maximum distance the particles of the medium carrying a wave move away from their rest position  
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what is wave length ?   the distance between tw correspodning parts of a wave  
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what is frequency?   the numbers of complete waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time  
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what is electromagnetic waves?   a form of radient energy  
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what is the calculation for speed?   distance divided by time=speed  
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what is pitch?   the quality of a sound governed by the rate of vibrations producing it; the degree of highness or lowness of a tone  
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what is vibration?   an instance of vibrating.  
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what is vacuum?   a space entirely devoid of matter.  
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what is an open system?   a material system in which mass or energy can be lost to or gained from the environment.  
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what is a newton?   . the SI unit of force. It is equal to the force that would give a mass of one kilogram an acceleration of one meter per second per second, and is equivalent to 100,000 dynes.  
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what is force?   strength or energy as an attribute of physical action or movement  
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