Energy Resources

1. Energy Resources Vocabulary

2. Energy • The ability to do work or cause change

3. Renewable Resource • An energy resource that is replaceable by natural means within a human lifetime such as trees.

4. Biomass • Biological material such as plant material or animal waste converted to a useable energy source, a renewable resource Wood Ethanol

5. Non-renewable Resource • An energy resource that takes millions of years to form from the remains of plants and animals such as coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear power.

6. Fossil Fuels • A natural fuel such as coal, oil, or natural gas formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms

7. Coal • A hard, black substance extracted from the ground and burned to obtain energy; a non-renewable fossil fuel

8. Oil (Petroleum) • A thick, flammable, yellow-to-black mixture of gaseous, liquid, and solid hydrocarbons that occurs naturally beneath Earth's surface; a non-renewable fossil fuel

9. Natural Gas • A gas usually found above petroleum deposits and burned to obtain energy, a non-renewable fossil fuel

10. Nuclear Power • The splitting of uranium atoms to release energy; a non-renewable fossil fuel

11. Indefinite Resource(nearly perpetual or inexhaustible) • resources that are not limited

12. Wind Energy • Turbines harness the movement of air and convert it to useable energy; an indefinite resource

13. Geothermal Energy • Heat is harnessed from deep beneath Earth’s surface and converted to useable energy; an indefinite resource

14. Hydropower • The movement of water through a dam is converted to useable energy; an indefinite resource

15. Solar Energy • The Sun's energy is collected and converted to useable energy; an indefinite resource

16. Law of Conservation of Energy • Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but can only change from one form to another.