Energy Quiz

The sum of kinetic and potential energy within a system is called

• Thermal energy

• Electrical energy

• Chemical energy

• Mechanical energy

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Potential energy is

• Moving energy

• Stored energy

• All energy in a system

• The difference between stored and moving energy

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Kinetic energy is

• The difference between stored and moving energy

• The sum of all energy in a system

• Stored energy

• Moving energy

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Which is NOT a type of potential energy

• Elastic

• Gravitational

• Potential

• Kinetic

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Where does a rollercoaster have the highest potential energy?

• At the top of a hill

• Halfway up the hill

• Sitting still at the bottom of a hill

• Halfway down the hill

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Two trucks have the same velocity but different masses. Which has more kinetic energy?

• The heavier truck

• The lighter truck

• The truck that started first

• The truck that is stopped

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When an object falls, some of its ​ (a)   converts to ​ (b)   as it falls.

• GPE
• kinetic energy

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A golfer's swing has the highest​ (a)   at the top of its path and the highest​ (b)   at the bottom of its path.

• potential energy
• kinetic energy

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Heating a waffle in a toaster is the change from​ (a)   energy to ​ (b)   energy

• electrical
• thermal
• kinetic

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Playing a piano is a change from ​ (a)   energy to ​ (b)   energy

• kinetic
• sound
• gravitational potential