Practice Quiz- Energy

When you rub your hands together on a cold day, you use friction to convert

• mechanical energy into thermal energy

• thermal energy into nuclear energy

• nuclear energy into electrical energy

• electrical energy into electromagnetic energy

An example of something that stores chemical energy is?

• lightning

• a microwave

• light

• a match

Energy stored in the nucleus of an atom is called?

• electromagnetic energy

• nuclear energy

• mechanical energy

• chemical energy

Kinetic energy increases as...

• both mass and velocity decrease

• both mass and velocity increase

• mass decreases and velocity increases

• mass increases and velocity decreases

Potential energy that depends on height is called

• kinetic energy

• gravitational potential energy

• elastic potential energy

• mechanical energy