Across
- 2. type of mining used when coal deposits are deep underground
- 4. technique involving fracturing bedrock formations underground by a pressurized liquid
- 8. converts stored chemical energy into forms we can use for other things (AKA burning)
- 10. energy of motion
- 13. energy of an object due to its position or shape
- 17. this greenhouse gas is released when methane is burned
- 18. type of energy that is readily available and are replaced quickly
- 19. this type of extraction uses the natural underground pressure
- 20. the energy stored in chemical bonds
Down
- 1. country that used the most energy per capita
- 3. plant in Ukraine that exploded an exposed a nuclear reactor core
- 4. breaking up an atoms nucleus
- 5. this type of energy is stored in forces holding atomic nuclei together
- 6. most commonly used fossil fuel for electricity generation
- 7. compressed, dead plant material that forms coal
- 9. this type of kinetic energy that moves molecules based on the temperature
- 11. 31% of energy is contained by this category of our countries energy
- 12. the cleanest burning of the fossil fuels, relatively abundant in the US
- 14. oil spill that occurred in 1989
- 15. oil mixture of different hydrocarbons
- 16. fuel for a nuclear reactor, an unstable atom that often emits a neutron