Review for the Forms of Energy Quiz

1. Potential energy that depends on an object's height above the ground is called ___________.

• kinetic energy

• mechanical energy

• elastic potential energy

• gravitational potential energy

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The ability to do work or cause change is called

• friction

• transfer

• energy

• velocity

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Energy stored in the nucleus of an atom is called

• electromagnetic energy

• nuclear energy

• mechanical energy

• chemical energy

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Which of the following has kinetic energy?

• a car waiting at a red light

• a rolling bowling ball

• an archer’s bow that is drawn back

• a rock poised for a fall

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A large truck and a small car are moving at the same speed. The truck has greater kinetic energy because it has ____________________ is greater.

• velocity

• mass

• potential

• engine

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The law of ______________________________ states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be transferred and transformed.

• gravity

• atomic theory

• conservation of energy

• thermodynamics

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Fusion reactions in the sun change nuclear energy into

• mechanical energy

• chemical energy

• electromagnetic energy

• potential energy

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In a pendulum, a continuous change occurs between kinetic energy and

• potential energy

• electromagnetic energy

• thermal energy

• mechanical energy

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The energy transformation that occurs in a flashlight

• chemical to potential

• chemical to electrical to radiant + thermal

• radiant to electrical

• thermal to chemical

A change from one form of energy to another is called a(n).

• switch

• transformation

• potential

• power up

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