Energy Resources Vocabulary Practice

Organic matter that can be a source of energy

• Renewable Energy

• Geothermal Energy

• Biomass

• Solar Energy

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

the use of a windmill to drive an electric generator

• Wind Power

• Coal

• Fossil Fuels

• Nuclear Energy

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

the energy released by a fission of fusion reaction; the binding energy of the atomic nucleus

• Recycling

• Natural Gas

• Petroleum

• Nuclear Energy

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

a mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons located under the surface of the Earth

• Natural Gas

• Nonrenewable Resource

• Natural Resource

• Coal

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

a nonrenewable energy resource formed from the remains of organisms that lived long ago

• Solar Energy

• Natural Resource

• Fossil Fuel

• Petroleum

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NGSS.HS-ESS2-6

a resource that forms at a rate that is much slower than the rate at which it is consumed

• Nonrenewable Resource

• Renewable Resource

• Natural Resource

• Recycling

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

any natural material that is used by humans

• Wind Power

• Nonrenewable Resource

• Renewable Resource

• Natural Resource

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

the energy produced by the heat within the Earth

• Fossil Fuel

• Coal

• Geothermal Energy

• Petroleum

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NGSS.MS-PS3-3

electrical energy produced by falling water

• Natural Gas

• Hydroelectric Energy

• Biomass

• Geothermal Energy

the energy received by the Earth from the sun in the form of radiation

• Nonrenewable Energy

• Recycling

• Renewable Energy

• Solar Energy

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4