energy Flashcards

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energy resources that formed from buried remains of plants and animals

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what are fossil fuels

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2
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the comparison of the amount of energy before a conversion with the amount of energy after a conversion

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what is energy efficiency?

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the types of energy that electrical energy is converted to in a hair dryer

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what are thermal and sound energy?

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4
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energy of a compound that changes as its atoms are rearranged

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what is chemical energy?

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naturally replaced more quickly than they are used (wind, water, solar)

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what are renewable resources?

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simply a change from one form of energy to another

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what is energy conversion

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7
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energy of an object because of its position (stored energy)

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what is potential energy?

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8
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a natural resource that can be converted into other forms of energy in order to do useful work

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what is an energy resource?

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9
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a group of objects that transfer energy OLY to each other

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what is a closed system?

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10
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this is where potential energy is the greatest in a roller coaster

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what is at top of the first hill?

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the total energy of motion and position of an object (kinetic + potential)

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what is mechanical energy?

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can make work easier by changing the size or direction (or both) of the force needed to do the work

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what is a machine?

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the process that a plant uses to convert CO2 and H20 into sugar and 02

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what is photosynthesis?

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the type of energy that some mechanical energy is turned into because of friction?

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what is thermal energy?

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a natural resource that can be converted into other forms of energy in order to do useful work

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what is an energy resource?

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16
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a resource that cannot be replaced or are replaced much more slowly than they are used

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what is nonrenewable resource?

17
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the energy of moving electrons

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what is electrical energy?

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energy that is produced by the vibrations of electrically charged particles-dont have to be carried through matter

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what is light energy?

19
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energy that is dependent on velocity and mass

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what is kinetic energy?

20
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thermal energy caused by the heating of Earth’s crust

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what is geothermal energy?

21
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the kinetic energy that is due to the random motion of the particles that makes up an object

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what is thermal energy?

22
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the energy that is stored in a rubber band

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what is elastic potential energy?

23
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energy that comes from tiny amounts of matter-comes from changes in the nucleus of an atom

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what is nuclear power?

24
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the force that opposes motion between two surfaces that are touching

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what is friction?

25
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the ability to do work

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what is energy?

26
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Means that energy cannot be created or destroyed

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what is the law of conservation of energy?