Potential and Kinetic Energy

Why do Olympic Athletes need so much food?

• Food provides energy and they need a lot of energy so they can move quickly.

• Olympic athletes are not allowed to eat dinner, so they only eat breakfast.

• The food always has lots of sugar that is used as energy

• Sugar is so healthy, we should all eat a lot of it

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Which of the following has stored energy. There is more than one answer.

• A ball that is about to be thrown to a friend

• A bicycle at the top of a hill, about to go down it.

• A lion, waiting to chase it's prey

• A jet airplane flying through the sky

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Mr. Blackbourn, Mr. Lloyd, Ms. Fry and Mrs. Waudby are in a slingshot competition to see who can make a marble travel the fastest.

Mr. Blackbourn pulls his slingshot back 25cm

Mr. Lloyd pulls his slingshot back 32cm

Ms. Fry pulls her slingshot back 45cm

Mrs. Waudby pulls her slingshot back 38cm

Whose marble will travel the fastest?

• Mr. Blackbourn

• Mr. Lloyd

• Ms. Fry

• Mrs. Waudby

Complete the sentence -

Potential energy is...

• a carrot

• the energy stored in an object that could make it move

• the energy an object uses as it moves

• the energy it takes to make a cup of coffee

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Complete the sentence:

Kinetic energy is

• the energy that an object uses as it moves

• when I am sleeping

• not happening today

• the energy that an object could use to help it move.

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There are 4 hills of different size -

Hill 1 is 20m high

Hill 2 is 45m high

Hill 3 is 60m high

Hill 4 is 15m high

If I roll a ball down each of those hills, which hill would make the ball go fastest?

• Hill 1

• Hill 2

• Hill 3

• Hill 4

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Choose the right explanation - An orange is a storer of potential energy because

• Because it tastes nice and so I would like to eat it.

• Because I like the color orange and nice colors give me energy.

• Because oranges grow on trees and fall off the tree.

• Because an orange has energy and we can use this energy when we eat it.

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