Energy Vocabulary

The ability to do work

• soil

• Energy

• coal

• petroleum

Energy of moving particles or atoms that make up all matter; heated substances have more thermal energy than cooled substances

• Thermal energy

• potential energy

• renewable energy

• energy transformation

Energy of moving objects, such as a rolling ball, wind or currents

• potential energy

• chemical energy

• mechanical energy

• You know the vibes

Energy stored in atomic bombs that form molecules; release when chemical reactions occur and rearrange those atoms by breaking the bonds.

• mechanical energy

• chemical energy

• potential energy

• kinetic energy

Energy of electric charges moving through conductors; power devices used in daily life.

• Electrical energy

• potential energy

• mechanical energy

• nonrenewable energy

Energy that travels in waves (ex: microwaves, radio waves, energy from the sun

• electromagnetic energy

• potential energy

• renewable energy

• mechanical energy

Energy stored in the nucleus of an atom, released when protons or neutrons are added to or removed from the nuclear energy

• nuclear energy

• chemical energy

• mechanical energy

• natural gas

One form of energy to another; allows energy to be used in different ways ( chemical energy in a battery transforms into electric energy in many battery powered appliances.

• natural gas

• energy transformation

• solar energy

• fossil fuel

Energy derived from sources that are continually replenished (when solar, biomass, geothermal, hydro-thermal)

• nonrenewable energy

• renewable energy

• chemical energy

• mechanical energy

Resources consumed by humans much faster than nature can produce (ex: oil, natural gas)

• nonrenewable energy

• renewable energy

• chemical energy

• solar energy