Electricity Quiz 1

As water flows through a dam to spin a turbine, what type of energy is converted into electrical energy?

• hydro

• potential

• kinetic

• thermal

List 3 ways that you use electricity in your life?

True of False? The human brain uses electrical energy to move the rest of your body?

• True

• False

• Unsure

Which of the following is not a type of Chemical energy?

• Batteries

• Fossil Fuels

• Biomass

• Solar

True or False? Nuclear Fission is the process that occurs in the Sun?

• True

• False

• Unsure

_______ energy from burning coal is used to boil water into steam

Charged materials are made through the process of...

• protons being moved

• creating equal numbers of protons and electrons

• neutrons being moved

• creating unequal number of positive and negative charges

Which rule regarding electric charge explains why a charged balloon can stick to a wall?

• charged objects attract neutral objects

• like charges repel

• opposite charges attract

What type of energy spins the blades of a wind turbine?

• wind

• hydro

• potential

• kinetic

Energy that is captured in fossil fuels and biomass are from the

• Earth's core

• Sun

• Potential Energy

• Earth's crust