Energy, Lesson 3 (Kinetic Energy)

Multiple Choice

Which of the following shows an example of elastic potential energy?

• An iceberg floating in the ocean

• A person swinging a baseball bat

• An apple hanging from a tree

• A spring being stretched apart

Multiple Choice

What is example of an object with the highest amount of Gravitational Potential Energy?

• A baseball flying through the air.

• An apple hanging on a branch.

• An airplane flying through the sky.

• A mountain lion onto of a mountain looking for food.

Multiple Choice

Students were watching the cycle of the pendulum going back and forth. What type of energy transformation is occurring as the pendulum swings from point C to point B?

• Kinetic Energy to Electric energy

• Kinetic Energy to Elastic Potential energy

• Kinetic Energy to Gravitational Potential Energy

• Gravitational Potential Energy to Kinetic energy

Multiple Choice

Based off the graphic to the left, which position has the highest amount of kinetic energy?

• A

• B

• C

Multiple Choice

The amount of kinetic energy an object has is related to _____

• Mass and height

• Mass and Speed

• Speed and height

• Space and Shape

Multiple Choice

If two objects that have different masses are traveling at the same speed, then the ____ object will have more kinetic energy.

• Lighter

• Heavier

Multiple Choice

When an object's speed doubles,  its kinetic energy ____ than doubles

• Less

• More

Multiple Choice

The greater the speed and mass of an object, the ____ kinetic energy it has.

• More

• Less

Multiple Choice

If these watermelons were traveling at the same speed, which would one would have more kinetic energy?

• The watermelon with 20 kg

• The watermelon with 10 kg

• They would both have equal amounts of kinetic energy