Unit 4 Vocabulary-Energy

What is a natural resource that can be converted into other forms of energy to do useful work?

• energy resource

• by product

• advantage

• disadvantage

What is an energy resource that is used faster than it can be replaced by natural processes?

• renewable resources

• nonrenewable resources

• pollution

• wind energy

What is an energy resource that can be replaced by natural processes in a relatively short amount of time?

• renewable resource

• energy conservation

• solar energy

• climate change

What is any natural resource that exists in such large quantity that it is considered almost limitless?

• inexhaustible resource

• by product

• energy conservation

• advantage

What is something produced in a usually industrial or biological process in addition to the principal product?

• by product

• energy conservation

• pollution

• energy resource

What is the reduction in the amount of energy consumed in a process or system through rational use and elimination of waster?

• energy consevation

• advantage

• disadvantage

• pollution

What is a condition or circumstance that puts one in a favorable or superior condition?

• advantage

• disadvantage

• pollution

• fossil fuel

What is an unfavorable circumstance or condition that reduces the chances of success or effectiveness?

• advantage

• disavantage

• by product

• energy source

What is the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects?

• advantage

• pollution

• by product

• energy conservation

What is a change in average weather conditions, or in the time variation of weather with the context or longer term average conditions?

• fossil fuel

• climate change

• by product

• energy resource