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What is energy?
The ability to cause motion or change in matter.
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What is a shadow?
A dark area behind an object.
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What is temperature?
How hot or cold something is.
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What is wind energy?
Kinetic energy produced by air.
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What are fossil fuels?
This non-renewable energy comes from ancient plant/animal remains (coal, oil, natural gas).
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What is the stored energy that an object contains?
Potential Energy
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What is to bend?
Refraction
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What is heat energy?
Energy that moves between two objects that are different temperatures.
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What is energy created by water movement?
Water energy
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What is energy we will not always have to use?
Non-renewable energy
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What is the energy an object has in motion?
Kinetic Energy
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What is reflection?
To bounce back
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What is the movement of heat from one place to another without being carried by matter?
Radiation
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What is energy from an electrical current?
Electrical Energy
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What is renewable energy?
Energy that won't run out (wind, water, sun).
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What is mechanical energy?
The total potential and kinetic energy.
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What is solar energy?
Light energy from the sun.
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What is the movement of heat between two solids in contact?
Conduction
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What is chemical energy?
A form of potential energy released after a chemical reaction.
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What is renewable energy from recent plants/animals? (Firewood, manure)
Biomass
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What is energy caused by vibrations that travel in waves?
Sound Energy
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What is energy that travels in waves through space and time?
Light Energy
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What is convection?
The movement of heat between gases and liquids.
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What is a chemical reaction?
An example of this is when an apple turns brown. A change that cannot be reversed.
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What is geothermal?
Hot water energy from earth's crust.
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