U4 D1 - Potential and Kinetic Energy: PE Focus

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Open Ended

Explain how the height from which a ball is dropped affects the height it bounces back. Use your understanding of energy.

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When the height the ball is dropped increases, the height the ball bounces is

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Multiple Choice

What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?

• Energy can be created and destroyed.

• Energy can only be created.

• Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only changes form.

• Energy can only be destroyed.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes potential energy?

• Energy that is stored, waiting to be released or used later

• Energy of motion

• Energy from chemical reactions

• Energy from the sun

Multiple Choice

How are potential energy and kinetic energy different?

• Potential energy is stored energy, while kinetic energy is energy of motion.

• Potential energy is energy of motion, while kinetic energy is stored energy.

• Both are forms of energy of motion.

• Both are forms of stored energy.

Multiple Select

Which of the following are examples of kinetic energy?

• Airplane flying

• Apples on a tree

• Compressed spring

• Boy skateboarding down a ramp

Open Ended

Explain how potential energy can be transformed into kinetic energy, using examples from the images.

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Bus going up a hill

Apple on a tree

Girl throwing a ball

Girl holding a ball

Parked bus

Windmill turning

Sort into the two columns

Kinetic

Potential

Multiple Choice

Which skier has more potential energy: blue or yellow?

• Blue skier

• Yellow skier

• Both have the same

• Cannot be determined

Open Ended

Describe how chemical potential energy is stored and released, using one example from the image.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes the difference between nuclear fusion and nuclear fission?

• Fusion combines nuclei, fission splits nuclei.

• Fusion splits nuclei, fission combines nuclei.

• Both fusion and fission split nuclei.

• Both fusion and fission combine nuclei.

Open Ended

Describe one way that nuclear potential energy and gravitational potential energy are similar and one way they are different.

Multiple Choice

At which labeled point (A, B, C, D, or E) on the roller coaster does the car have the greatest potential energy?

• A

• C

• D

• E

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Potential energy is highest at the

of a roller coaster track.

Multiple Select

Select all the correct statements about kinetic and potential energy as shown in the roller coaster diagram.

• Potential energy is highest at the top of the first hill (A)

• Kinetic energy increases as the car goes down the hill (B)

• Kinetic energy is highest at the lowest point of the track (C).

• Potential energy is highest at the lowest point of the track (C).

Open Ended

Explain how potential and kinetic energy are demonstrated in a roller coaster ride.