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| Audit | This process means to look at something in a step-by-step manner and record the findings. |
| By-Product | What is left over from a product after its use. |
| Consumer | This is a person, animal, or object that uses or takes a material. |
| Consumption | This is the act of using a resource. |
| Efficiency | How much you get out of a system compared to what you had to put in. |
| Energy | This is usable power from various sources. |
| Generator | This is a machine that produces electricity. |
| Independence | When you are independent, you do not rely on others for your needs. |
| Infrastructure | The most basic things needed to allow a system to work. |
| Kilowatt | The units used to measure how much electricity we use. |
| Kilowatt hour | Another way to measure the amount of electric power used. By measuring kilowatts over time, we can figure out the amount of work done by the system. |
| Kinetic energy | The energy something has because it is in motion. While a book sitting on a table has potential energy,a book as it falls off a table has kinetic energy.a book as it falls off a table has kinetic energy. |
| Long-term solution | A solution or answer to a problem that will work or is sustainable for an extended period of time and is intended to be somewhat permanent. |
| Mine | An excavation made in the earth for the purpose of extracting ores, coal, precious stones, etc |
| Non-renewable resource | Something created in nature that cannot be made again easily or in a short period of time. |
| Producer | Someone or something that creates or generates. |
| Production | The act of creating or generating. |
| Renewable Resource | A resource that cannot be depleted or can be replenished in a short period of time. |
| Short-term solution | A solution or answer to a problem designed to be only a temporary or intermediate fix to a problem. |
| Sustainability | This is the ability to last over the long term. A process is sustainable if it can be done over and over again with little or no need for change or modification. |
| Turbine | A device that turns mechanical energy into electrical power. |
