| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Biomass | plant materials and animal waste used as fuel |
| BTU (British Thermal Unit) | The heat equal to 1/180 of the heat required to raise the temperature of one pound of water from 32 degrees Celsius to 212 degrees Fahrenheit at a constant pressure of one atmosphere. |
| Chemical Energy | potential energy stored in chemical bonds of molecules. |
| Climate Change | a long-term change in weather patterns in a given area |
| Conservation | the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources |
| Efficiency | skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort |
| Electricity | energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor |
| Energy | (physics) the capacity of a physical system to do work |
| Environment | all of the surrounding things, conditions, and influences affecting the growth or development of living things. |
| Exhaustable Energy | Any source of energy that is limited and cannot be replaced when it is used, such as oil, coal, and natural gas |
| Fossil Fuel | fuel created from remains of plants and animals over millions of years |
| Geothermal | of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth |
| Greenhouse Effect | warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere |
| Heat Energy | energy released in the form of heat caused by the motion of moving molecules and the breaking of chemical bonds |
| Hydroelectric Energy | electricity produced by falling water |
| Hydrogen | a colorless, odorless gas that burns easily |
| Inexhaustible Energy | An energy source that will never run out. |
| Joule | a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second |
| Kinetic Energy | Energy in motion |
| Law of Conservation of Energy | the fundamental principle of physics that the total energy of an isolated system is constant despite internal changes |
| Light Energy | Radiant Energy From the sun |
| Mechanical Energy | energy in a mechanical form |
| Natural Gas | a fossil fuel in the gaseous state |
| Newton-Meter | A unit measure of work. |
| Non-Renewable Energy | a source of energy that exsists in limited quantities and once used, cannot be replaced except over the course of millions of years |
| Nuclear Energy | energy stored in the nucleus of an atom |
| Petroleum | a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons |
| Photovoltaic Cell | a cell that converts solar energy into electrical energy |
| Potential Energy | stored energy |
| Power | (physics) the rate of doing work |
| Renewable Energy | Any source of energy that can be continually produced and is inexhaustible given current conditions. |
| Solar Energy | Energy from the sun. |
| Sustainable | continuing, durable, enduring |
| Watt | a unit of power equal to 1 joule per second |
| Wind Energy | converts the movement of wind into electric energy |
| Wind Farm | a power plant that uses wind turbines to generate electricity |
| Wind Turbine | a turbine that is driven by the wind |
| Work | (physics) a manifestation of energy |
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