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- Passive Solar Energy: Using the design, orientation, and construction of a building to capture solar energy in order to heat or light it.
- Active Solar Energy: Using devices such as solar cells and panels to “capture” the sun’s energy to generate electricity.
- Electromagnetic Waves: Waves which are able to carry energy through a vacuum
- Radiation: A form of heat transfer that takes place through empty space
- Convection: A form of energy transfer that takes place in fluids—gases and liquids
- Conduction: A form of energy transfer that takes place in solids—when two or more objects come into contact.
- Intermittent Energy: Used to describe solar energy because it is not always available—ex. Night, rain/cloudy days.
- Medium: The substance or matter that energy travels through.
- Semi-conductor: Makes up solar cells and conducts electricity
- Solar Panel: A group of solar cells put together to collect solar energy from the sun.
- Fifteen: The percentage of sunlight that is converted to electricity by a solar cell.
- Thermal Mass Absorbers: The material that is used in passive solar heating to absorb and hold heat
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