Potential Kinetic Energy

Multiple Choice

What is the significance of understanding potential and kinetic energy in everyday life?

• It helps us predict weather patterns

• It allows us to understand how objects move and interact

• It explains the structure of atoms

• It helps us cook food faster

Multiple Choice

The two types of mechanical energy are...

• Potential and kinetic energy

• Thermal and chemical energy

• Electrical and sound energy

• Light and nuclear energy

Open Ended

Explain how potential energy can be changed into other types of energy using examples from daily life.

Multiple Choice

What two things determine the potential energy of an object?

• Height and mass

• Speed and direction

• Temperature and volume

• Color and shape

Multiple Choice

What is the SI unit of potential energy?

• Joule (J)

• Watt (W)

• Newton (N)

• Calorie (cal)

Multiple Choice

Which of the following scenarios would decrease the amount of gravitational potential energy an object has?

• Move the object closer to the ground

• Increase the mass of the object

• Increase the distance from the object to the ground

• Move the object to a place with more gravitational pull

Open Ended

What do you notice about the units of potential and kinetic energy?

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between mass, speed, and kinetic energy as shown in the ball drop diagrams?

• A ball with greater mass and speed has more kinetic energy.

• A ball with greater mass but less speed has more kinetic energy.

• A ball with less mass and more speed has more kinetic energy.

• A ball with less mass and less speed has more kinetic energy.

Open Ended

What are two ways to increase the amount of kinetic energy a roller coaster car has so it can reach the top of the track? Provide evidence to support your answer.

Multiple Choice

What type of energy transformation occurs when a ball is dropped and bounces back up?

• Potential energy to kinetic energy and back to potential energy

• Kinetic energy to thermal energy

• Potential energy to chemical energy

• Kinetic energy to electrical energy

Open Ended

Explain how potential and kinetic energy change as a pendulum swings from position A to B to C.

Multiple Select

Which of the following are examples of kinetic energy?

• A car driving fast

• Someone running

• A tree branch about to fall

• Top of a roller coaster

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Multiple Choice

Which point on the roller coaster has equal amounts of potential and kinetic energy?

• Top of the first hill

• Bottom of the first hill

• Halfway down the first hill

• Top of the second hill

Open Ended

Describe the changes in energy as the roller coaster moves from Point A to Point D.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best explains why the straight slide in the waterpark photo would be the fastest?

• Gravity pulls you straight down without a change in direction, maximizing kinetic energy.

• Curved slides allow you to go faster because you change direction.

• The color of the slide affects your speed.

• Slides with water are always faster than dry slides.

Multiple Choice

In which of the following situations is potential energy being transformed into kinetic energy?

• A rubber band pulled back as far as it can go and then released.

• Water in a lake behind a dam.

• Standing on the end of a diving board.

Open Ended

Describe a real-world example outside the classroom where potential energy is transformed into kinetic energy.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following scenarios is an example of kinetic energy?

• A satellite orbiting the Earth at nearly 20,000 miles/hour.

• A basketball sits on the rim before falling into the hoop.

• A cliff diver is just about to jump off an 18m high cliff.

• A girl is swinging and she is at her highest point of the swing.

Open Ended

Compare and contrast potential and kinetic energy. How are they alike and how are they different?

Open Ended

After learning about potential and kinetic energy, what is one real-life example you can think of where both types of energy are present?

Open Ended

Compare and contrast potential and kinetic energy.

Open Ended

Which parts of the essential question do you still need help to understand?