Ch 8 Review

1. What is the ability to do work or cause change?

• Energy
• Kinetic energy
• Potential energy
• Energy forms

An electric oven does the same amount of work to cook food as a microwave.  Which has more power?

• oven because it transfers the same amount of energy in more time
• microwave because it transfers the same amount of energy in less time

What is the law that states that energy cannot be created or destroyed only transform form one energy to another?

• Law of Conservation of Energy
• Law of Conservation of Mass
• Law of Conversation of Matter
• Newton's Laws

What is energy due to an object's motion?

• Energy
• Kinetic energy
• Potential energy
• Chemical energy

What is the stored energy of an object that results from the object's  position or shape?

• Energy
• Kinetic energy
• Potential energy
• Sound energy

What do we call a change from one form of energy to another?

• Energy change
• Energy transformation
• Energy conversion
• Energy creation

The sun uses this form of energy to make light and thermal energy (heat)

• electrical
• nuclear
• sound
• chemical

What form of nuclear energy results from splitting the nucleus of an atom?

• Fusion
• Fiction
• Fission
• Atomic

What form of nuclear energy is formed when the nuclei of atoms join together?

• Fusion
• Fiction
• Fission
• Atomic

Nuclear power plants use the process of nuclear fission to produce what form of energy?

• Chemical
• Electrical
• Thermal
• Mechanical