| A | B |
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| Potential energy | the energy stored in an object |
| Kinetic enetgy | the energy of motion |
| Law | principle |
| Transform | to change from one form to another |
| First law of energy | energy is neither created nor distroyed |
| Vibration | movement back in forths |
| Second law of energy | higher quantity to lower quantity forms of energy |
| Inefficient | wasteful |
| Nonrenewable | available in limited supply |
| Utility | a company that performs a public service |
| Transport | to move from one place to another |
| Deposit | a layer of material laid down naturally |
| Crude oil | a thick liquid fossil fuels found underground |
| Petroleum | another word for crude oil |
| Diatom | alga found in ocean millions of years ago |
| Refinery | where crude oil is turned into usable oils |
| Turbine | device that can be turned by steam,water,or wind |
| Generator | a machine that generates electricity |
| Contaminate | to pollute |
| Sulfur oxide | pollutant produced by burning fossil fuels |
| Reserve | amount of natural resources available |
| Coal | fossil fuel made up ofalmost pure carbon |
| Strip mining | mining in which the surface layer of rock is removed |
| Tunnel mining | mining in which "room's" of coal are extracted |
| Mountain top removal | coal mining i which the entire top of a moutain is removed |
| Natural gas | underground deposits of gas, mostly methane |
| Methane | a gas released by decaying organisms |
| Impurity | pollution or contamination |
| Subatomic | a proton,nuetron,or electron |
| Nucleus | the center of an atom |
| Isotops | atoms of the same element that have different numbers of electrons |
| Nuclear fission | process of producing energy by splitting atoms |
| Chain reaction | a reaction that causes itself to continue |
| Radioactive | giving off energy while changing into another substance |
| Uranium | a radioactive element used in nuclear fission |
| Fuel rod | radioactive rod used in nuclear fission |
| Nuclear reactor | divice in which nuclear fission takes place |
| Tailing | debris produced by mining |
| Leukemia | a cancer of the blood cells |
| Ventilation | a means of supplying fresh air |
| Meltdown | complete melting of a nuclear reactor's core |
| Solor energy | energy from the sun |
| Passive solor energy | energy produced by sunlight without machienery |
| Daylighting | using sunlight to replace or supplement artificial light |
| Insulation | material that prevents heat or cold from escaping into or out of space |
| Solar collector | device that captures solar energy and converts it into heat |
| Photovolaics | device that converts solar energy into electricity |
| Power grid | network of power lines used to distribute electicity to a region |
| Hydropower | enrgy that comes from moving water |
| Dam | barrier built across a river to control the flow of water |
| Downstream | the direction of the way water is flowing |
| Fish ladder | series of pools that allow fish to move upstream over a dam |
| Wind turbine | tower with moving blades that converts wind movement into energy |
| Wind farm | area with many connected groups of wind turbines |
| Aesthetics | visual apperence |
| Hot spring | natural flow of groundwater heated inside the earth |
| Geyser | jet of hot liquid or steam that shoots out of a crack in the earth's crust |
| Geothermal | heat frominside the earth |
| Biomass | plant material that is burned for fuel |
| Peat | partly decomposed plant material found in wetlands |
| Ethanol | a fuel made from corn or sugar cane |
| Energy conservation | using and wasting less energy |
| Carpooling | sharing car rides with others to reduce energy use |
| Energy efficiency | the percentage of useful work from an input of energy |
| Compact fluorescents | energy-efficient light bulbs |
| Energy efficient | waste less energy |
| Hybrid vehicle | vehicle that runs on both gasolive energy and electric motor |
| Mandated | enforced by law |
| Fuel cell | device for converting chemicals to electricity |
