Potential Energy

Which type of energy increases when you compress a spring?

• elastic potential energy
• kinetic energy
• radiant energy
• sound energy

Energy stored because of gravity is called:

• Gravitational Potential Energy

• Kinetic Energy

• Mechanical Advantage

• Chemical Energy

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How could you increase the potential energy of an object without changing its mass and gravity?

• Make the object larger

• Lower the object towards the ground

• Raise the object farther off the ground

• Allow the object to roll on the ground

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Which picture is NOT an example of Chemical PE?

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Which piece of evidence BEST represents Chemical PE being released?

• a rubber band flung a far distance

• an apple falling from a tree

• 2 magnets repelling

• water temperature increasing

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What kind of energy is stored energy?

• Potential

• Kinetic

• None of the above

• All of the above

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At which point does the ball has the greatest gravitational potential energy (GPE)?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

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What will happen to the potential energy of the magnets as the N and S get close?

• increase
• decrease
• stay the same
• there is none

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A nuclear bomb converts what kind of potential energy to kinetic?

• chemical

• mechanical

• nuclear

• gravitational

• electrical

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Which of the following are types of potential energy?

• gravitational

• electrical

• chemical

• nuclear

• mechanical

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