Energy Conversions vocabulary quiz

What does it mean to "convert" energy from one form to another?

• add it

• subtract it

• change it

• multiply it

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What is the electrical grid?

• the wires in a box under the stairs

• the wires in a phone

• the wires that connect electricity in a city, the wires that transfer electrical energy from many sources to many other places

• the wires used to hold my Halloween skeleton up

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What type of energy is usually transferred through wires?

• heat (thermal) energy

• light energy

• electrical energy

• mechanical (motion) energy

A machine that converts electrical energy to another form of energy is called an

• algorithm

• electrical device

• elimination

• electrical storm

To change from one form to another is called

• convert

• converge

• submerge

• reform

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The ability to make things move or change is

• enforce

• energy

• synthesize

• system

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A person who uses science knowledge to design something in order to solve a problem is an

• elevator operator

• environmentalist

• engineer

• airplane operator

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What something can do is it's ___________. The ___________ of a can opener is to open a can.

• fraction, fraction

• fission, fission

• function, function

• form, form

A group of parts that work together is a

• synthesize

• source

• system

• evidence

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To ___________ something, is to move it from one place to another.

• tally

• function

• transfer

• energy

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