Energy Transfers

What is energy?

• The ability to do work

• The science of work

• The movement of objects

• The placement of objects

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What is kinetic energy?

• Energy that connects with other types of energy

• Energy of a moving object

• Energy an object has stored by virtue of its height about the ground

• Energy that could happen at some time

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Sound Energy, light energy, electrical energy, wave motion, or anything involving movement are examples of __________(potential or kinetic) energy. (Spelling counts!)

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Mark the 3 examples of potential energy

• food

• bungee cords

• flying plane

• batteries

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What affects kinetic energy?

• mass and height

• mass and weight

• mass and speed

• mass and energy

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Which factor increases an object's kinetic energy the most?

• mass

• speed

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What affects gravitational potential energy?

• energy and mass

• mass and speed

• speed and weight

• weight and height

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What factor increases an object's gravitational potential energy most?

• height

• weight

True or False: As the speed of an object increases, the kinetic energy increase at a steady rate.

• True

• False

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True or False: As the speed of an object increases, the kinetic energy increases very quickly.

• True

• False

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