Energy Resources

2. / a chemical that is made from petroleum or natural gas
5. / a substance (such as coal or natural gas) that contains only carbon and hydrogen
6. fuel / fuel made of living things
8. / the central core of an atom that contains the protons and neutrons
9. / a kind of oil that comes from below the ground and that is the source of gasoline and other products
11. / an act or instance of burning
12. / a mixture of alcohol and gasoline
14. / a factory in which crude oil is heated and separated into fuels and other products
16. rods / neutron absorbing rods that help control the reaction by limiting the number of free neutrons
18. vessel / the part of the nuclear reactor where nuclear fission occurs

1. energy / intense heat from earths interior that warms the magma
3. power / energy produced by flowing water
4. transformation / a change from one form of energy to another
7. rods / uranium rod that undergoes fission in a nuclear reactor
10. / a dangerous condition in which fuel rods inside a nuclear reactor melt
13. energy / energy from the sun
15. fission / the splitting of an atom's nucleus into two smaller nuclei
17. fuel / a fuel (as coal, oil, or natural gas) formed in the earth from plant or animal remains