Energy Vocabulary

Substances that can be used as sources of energy

• Energy Sources

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Resources that produce very little waste products and can be replaced in a relatively short amount of time

• Fossil fuels
• Hazardous materials
• Renewable resources
• Non-renewable resources

Resources that exist in limited supply and are

used up faster than they can be replaced.

• Renewable resources
• Sustainable resources
• Infinite resources
• Non-renewable resources

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Power generated by harnessing the

energy from the movement of wind.

• Solar energy
• Wind energy
• Geothermal energy
• Hydroelectric energy

Power produced by harnessing the energy

from the Sun’s rays.

• Hydropower
• Solar energy

• Geothermal energy
• Wind power

Energy produced from the

movement of flowing water.

• Solar power
• Hydroelectric energy

• Wind energy
• Geothermal energy

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Energy produced from

recently living organisms

or their waste.

• Nuclear energy
• Geothermal energy
• Solar energy
• Biomass

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Energy that comes from

extreme heat within the Earth.

• solar energy
• wind energy
• geothermal energy
• nuclear energy

A solid energy

resource produced

from plant remains.

• natural gas
• coal
• nuclear energy
• biomass

An energy resource formed

from the remains of small

marine plants and animals

buried under heat and pressure.

• Oil

• Solar energy
• Geothermal energy