All Energy Keywords Flashcards
(21 cards)
What is a Chemical Store?
Energy stored in food or fuels.
What is Conduction?
A way in which energy is transferred, mainly through solids.
What is Convection?
Energy transfer through the movement of gases or liquids.
What is a Convection Current?
The movement of heated liquids or gases.
What is Dissipated Energy?
Energy that has become spread out or wasted by heating the environment.
What is an Elastic Store?
Energy stored when objects change shape.
What is Energy?
Associated with changes in temperature or with work.
What are Energy Resources?
Materials or mechanisms for heating or generating electricity.
What is an Energy Store?
Something that enables you to account for the energy at the start and end of a transfer.
What is a Fossil Fuel?
Coal, oil or gas made from the remains of organisms over millions of years.
What is a Gravitational Potential Store?
Energy due to an object’s position in a gravitational field.
What is Infrared Radiation?
Radiation emitted by the sun and other objects that transfer thermal energy.
What is an Insulator?
Materials that do not conduct electricity or transfer energy well.
What is a Kinetic Store?
Energy created by moving objects.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
Energy cannot be created or destroyed; only transferred.
What does Non-renewable mean?
Energy resources that have a limited supply.
What is a Power Rating?
A number, in the unit watts, that indicates the rate at which energy is transferred to an appliance.
What is Radiation?
The transfer of energy as a wave.
What does Renewable mean?
Energy resources that will not run out.
What is Temperature?
A measure of how hot or cold something is.
What is a Thermal Store?
Energy in objects due to the motion of their particles.
