Energy Needs Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. Light and heat energy from the sun. This energy also causes winds and drives the water cycle.
  2. 5. Electricity generated from the movement of the tides.
  3. 6. Energy stored in the nucleus of an atom.
  4. 8. A renewable resource made from things that were once alive.
  5. 9. Reduction in the number or quantity of something.
  6. 10. Natural situation in which heat is retained in Earth’s atmosphere by carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and other gasses.
  7. 11. Rain that is more acidic than normal, caused by pollutants in the air (such as burning fossil fuels)
  8. 14. Relying strongly on a single energy source.
  9. 15. Energy generated from the kinetic energy of moving air.
  10. 18. A colorless, odorless gas produced by burning carbon and organic compounds and be respiration.
  11. 19. Able to meet the current demand for a resource without depleting the future supply
  12. 20. A renewable resource that comes from inside the Earth.
Down
  1. 1. Electricity produced by the kinetic energy of water moving over a waterfall or dam.
  2. 2. Energy-rich substances formed from the remains of once living organisms.
  3. 4. Energy that comes from sources that do not use up natural resources or harm the environment and are used in place of fossil fuels.
  4. 7. A gradual increase in the temperature of Earth’s atmosphere.
  5. 12. To save or reduce the use of something
  6. 13. Resources that are constantly being resupplied.
  7. 16. Resources that are being used up faster than they are made.
  8. 17. Harmful substances in the air, water or soil.