Physical Science Review

True or False:

Energy can be moved from place to place by moving objects or through sound, light, or electric currents.

• True

• False

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Energy can be transferred from place to place to produce:

• sound

• heat

• light

• all of the options are correct

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What type of energy do you call "stored energy"?

• kinetic energy

• potential energy

• light energy

• heat energy

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What do you call energy that is in motion?

• kinetic energy

• potential energy

• sound energy

• electrical energy

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Which of the following uses electrical energy to produce motion?

• the sun

• a basketball

• a ceiling fan

• clapping your hands

Which of the following examples of energy transfer matches what happens when you play an instrument? (guitar, piano, clarinet, violin etc.)

• wind to electrical energy

• the energy of motion to sound

• heat energy to light energy

• the energy of motion to friction

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Which of the following uses chemical energy?

• light bulb

• fan

• battery

• water fountain

True or False:

Sound waves only travel in one direction.

• True

• False

Here are some waves. Which of the following vocabulary terms matches the highest point of a wave?

• trough

• crest

• wavelength

• frequency

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Which of the following definitions describes a wavelength?

• how fast the wave repeats

• the lowest point of a wave

• the distance between two crests or two troughs in a wave

• how far a wave travels

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