Energy Vocab

5. something that there is few of or not many
8. To slowly go away
9. The pollution coming from mechanical vehicles using fossil fuels
12. This is energy collect from water moving turbines to create kinetic energy
13. Global warming is when the earth is heating up because of our use of nonrenewable resources
17. These are sources of energy that will never run out and are renewable sources of energy
18. Climate change is a factor of global warming which is that the temperature heats up
20. The greenhouse effect is where the earths eats the sun’s rays and sends it back out as infrared rays
21. Ozone depletion is the depletion of the ozone layer that is saving us from the sun’s rays
22. Nonrenewable energy is energy where the energy can not be used again

1. Wind turbines are large structures that when moved by the wind create energy
2. This is where the kinetic energy of the wind can be used as mechanical or electrical energy
3. Heat obtained from the sun’s heat and light
4. Fossil fuels are fuels like oil, coal, and gas that are nonrenewable sources
6. will be there forever and you can not deplete it
7. This happen when the nucleus of atoms are split and the heat created is used
10. Reusing and recycling of energy to make sure it is not wasted
11. These are cells that use the sun’s rays and convert them into electrical currents
14. This is thermal energy obtained from the heat inside the earth's crust
15. Renewable energy is energy that can be used multiple times instead of just burning off
16. To take away or take a part of
19. any plant material or wastes. or The amount of dried living matter in a square meter