Types of Energy

Which is an example of potential energy?

• a roller coaster speeding down a hill
• the pulled back string on an archers's bow
• releasing the strings on a guitar
• an electric current lighting a light bulb

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Energy of motion is which type of energy?

• Potential
• Kinetic
• Sound
• Gravitational

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What kind of energy is represented in the picture?

• Thermal
• Chemical
• Sound
• Nuclear

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What kind of energy is in a rock at the edge of a cliff?

• Potential
• Kinetic
• Both potential and kinetic energy
• none of the above

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A battery converts what type of energy to another?

• sound to kinetic
• light to heat
• mechanical to electrical
• chemical to electrical

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Wind turbines and windmills convert what energy to another?

• Kinetic to electric
• Gravitational potential to electric
• Mechanical to potential
• Thermal to sound

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On a roller coaster, where is maximum kinetic energy?

• At the bottom of a big hill
• When going around a corner
• When going upside down
• At the top of a big hill

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On a roller coaster, where is maximum potential energy?

• At the bottom of a big hill
• When going around a corner
• When going upside down
• At the top of a big hill

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When a pendulum swings, at which point is kinetic energy highest?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

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Students are investigating changes from potential to kinetic energy by rolling a marble down a ramp made by propping up a plastic ruler on a book and letting it roll down.

Which of the following will change the potential energy the marble starts with?

• Adding more books beneath the ruler to increase its height

• Pushing the marble down the ramp

• Switching the plastic ruler with a wooden one

• Replacing the marble with a rock of equal mass