Forms of Energy

What type of energy is in this picture?

• Kinetic
• Potential
• Electromagnetic

What form of energy is being used when a person hits a tennis ball with a tennis racket?

• thermal energy
• sound energy
• light energy
• mechanical energy

Which is the best example that something has kinetic energy?

• a. a car parked on a steep hill 
• b. a tennis ball rolling across the court
• c. a picture hanging on the wall 
• d. a piece of coal before it's burned 

What form of energy is being used when a person pushes heavy boxes across the floor? 

• Electrical energy
• Mechanical energy
• Heat energy
• Sound energy

A girl turned the light off and went to bed.  She remembered she had accidentally left her glass of ice water on the counter.  When she got up the next morning, the ice had melted. What form of energy caused the ice to melt?

• Sound energy
• Light energy
• Thermal energy
• Mechanical energy

Which form of energy is produced when a guitar string vibrates?

• Sound energy
• Electrical energy
• Chemical energy
• Light energy

fWhich of the following is NOT mechanical energy?

• Pedaling a bike
• Rowing a boat
• Turning on a light bulb
• ocRunning up a hill

Heat is another name for-

• thermal energy
• magnetic energy
• electrical energy
• mechanical energy

What type of energy does an oven produce?

• light 
• heat
• light and heat
• none of the above

The illustration shows a lamp giving off light.
What form of energy does the lamp use to produce light?

• thermal
• light
• electricity
• mechanical