Energy Transformations

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When a person strikes and lights a match, potential energy in the match is transformed into which types of energy?

Back

thermal and radiant

Front

What affects kinetic energy and potential energy, respectively?

Back

velocity, height

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What is the source of almost all energy on Earth? Options: the Sun, Earth's hot core, moving water, stored carbon

Back

the Sun

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Front

If the kinetic and potential energy in a system are equal, then the potential energy increases. What happens as a result?

Back

energy of motion decreases

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Front

A flashlight uses the chemical energy stored in a battery. This chemical energy is eventually converted into which two forms of energy?

Back

radiant and thermal

Front

As a person pushes a box across a floor, the energy from the person’s moving arm is transferred to the box, and the box and the floor become warm. During this process, what happens to energy?

Back

It is conserved.

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Front

What are the two main types of energy?

Back

kinetic and potential

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Which activity directly converts energy from the Sun into chemical energy?

Back

a bean plant making its own food to grow

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Front

The amount of kinetic energy an object has depends on which feature of the object?

Back

its motion

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Front

Order of energy transformations in a solar-powered car: radiant, chemical, electrical; electrical, kinetic, radiant; electrical, chemical, kinetic; radiant, electrical, mechanical.

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radiant, electrical, mechanical