Across
- 4. Nuclear _____ involves the breaking up of an atoms nucleus
- 6. Method of coal mining when deep underground
- 10. Commonly used practice for converting stored chemical energy into other forms
- 12. Energy that comes from an objects position or shape
- 16. Subatomic particles emitted by unstable atoms
- 17. Energy in the movement of molecules,associated with temperature
- 18. Nuclear power plant that exploded in Ukraine in 1986, causing worst man made ecological disaster
- 19. Energy required to move/change an objects position
- 25. Energy that comes in waves on the electromagnetic spectrum
- 26. Method of extracting natural gas, also called hydraulic fracturing
Down
- 1. The energy of motion
- 2. Fuel for a nuclear reactor,unstable atom that emits a neutron
- 3. Nuclear ______ involves joining 2 atoms
- 5. Method of coal mining when it is near the surface
- 7. Energy that is stored in the chemical bonds between atoms and molecules
- 8. Energy associated with movement of electrons
- 9. Where steam is cooled and changed into liquid water in process of using nuclear energy
- 11. Fossil fuel that is extracted through strip mining or subsurface mining
- 13. Resources that can be replaced quickly or continually
- 14. Energy stored in forces holding atomic nuclei together
- 15. The cleanest burning of fossil fuels, also abundant in the US
- 20. Resources that are difficult to or impossible to replace
- 21. Dead plant material that is compressed into coal
- 22. Oil extraction where water/gas is injected into ground to push up oil
- 23. Special facilities that separate and extract needed materials from crude oil
- 24. Oil extraction where underground pressure pushes oil to surface