Across
- 1. The ability to do work.
- 3. The law that states that energy cannot be created or destroyed but only transferred between objects or transformed.
- 4. The process where energy changes from one form to another.
- 9. Resources that are easily replaced by natural methods.
- 10. The energy that objects possess due to their motion.
- 15. Produced by nuclear fission reactions.
- 16. Heat energy that originates deep within the earth’s interior.
- 18. Type of lightbulbs that are longer lasting and use less electricity than incandescent lightbulbs.
- 20. The energy stored inside a substance such as food or fuel, that gets released when their atoms rearrange during a chemical reaction.
- 21. Transforming the kinetic energy of blowing wind into electricity.
- 22. Chemical potential energy obtained from renewable organic materials.
Down
- 2. The energy stored in an object due to its height above the Earth.
- 5. Using turbines to convert energy from the rising and falling tides into electrical energy.
- 6. Resources that are not replaced naturally, or in a human lifetime.
- 7. Using solar cells to convert energy from the sun into electricity.
- 8. The fuel source used in an atomic power plants.
- 11. Formed from the remains of plants and animals that lived in the past.
- 12. Electrical energy generated by the movement of water.
- 13. A system in which no energy is leaving or entering.
- 14. The sum of any kinetic energy and all the forms of potential energy in a system.
- 17. Stored energy that can be used later.
- 19. The product of an object’s mass and its acceleration due to gravity.
