Energy Transfer

True or False. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, rather it is transformed from one energy type to another.

• True

• False

What form of energy transfer is most likely responsible when your clothes dryer dries your clothes?

• Potential to Chemical to Nuclear

• Kinetic to Thermal to Light

• Chemical to Mechanical to Electrical

• Electrical to Mechanical to Thermal

What type of energy transfer is most likely responsible when a plant converts the suns energy into food?

• Chemical to Solar

• Solar to chemical

• Light to electrical

• Electrical to chemical

What form of energy is also described as "energy of motion"?

• Potential

• Mechanical

• Kinetic

• Electrical

"Stored energy" is another way of describing what energy type?

• Potential

• Electrical

• Kinetic

• Mechanical

Global warming is known as the gradual increase in _________________ of the atmosphere.

• precipitation

• sun spots

• temperature

• ocean currents

Possible human solutions for limiting global warming and climate change are...

• being more energy-efficient

• using renewable sources of energy

• removing carbon from fossil fuel emissions

• all of the above

What type of energy is in this picture?

• Kinetic

• Potential

• Chemical

• Sound

A battery converts what type of energy to another?

• sound to kinetic

• light to heat

• mechanical to electrical

• chemical to electrical

The glow sticks produce light for a short amount of time. The light from the glow stick is a conversion from what to what?

• thermal to light

• gravitational to potential

• radiant to electrical

• chemical to light