Energy Transformation Review

Energy due to motion is ____________ energy. 

• Potential 
• Energy
• Kinetic
• Friction

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What is the energy transformation that occurs in an electric pencil sharpener?

• mechanical energy to electrical energy

• electrical energy to mechanical energy

• radiant energy to sound energy

• chemical energy to mechanical energy

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Which items would have this energy transformation: electrical energy -> thermal energy and light energy?

• toaster
• candle burning
• windmill turning
• Iron for your clothes

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Wind turbines and windmills convert (or change) what energy to another?

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

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Food

• radiant

• chemical

• potential

• kinetic

• sound

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Batteries

• radiant

• chemical

• potential

• kinetic

• sound

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What is energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor?

• electrical energy
• solar energy
• mechanical energy
• potential energy

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Energy can neither be created or destroyed, it can only change form.

• True

• False

A cell phone battery dies.  It gets plugged into an electrical outlet to recharge. Which of the following energy transformations occur during the charging?

• mechanical to chemical
• electrical to solar
• chemical to light
• electrical to chemical

Mrs. Goodwyn's students are complaining that it is hot in the classroom. She plugs in the fan and turns it on, which energy transformation occurs?

• mechanical to electrical
• electrical to mechanical
• chemical to mechanical
• electromagnetic to mechanical

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