Energy Transfer

Select all that apply: Which of the following best represents the Law of Conservation of Energy?

• Energy CAN change forms

• Energy CAN be destroyed AND created

• Energy CANNOT be created

• Energy CANNOT be destroyed

What is Energy?

• The ability to do anything

• The ability to cause change or do work

• The investigation of nature

• A fact of life

Energy cannot be created or destroyed.

• True

• False

Name the Energy Conversion of a dryer.

• Chemical→ Thermal and Radiant

• Electrical → Elastic, Thermal, and Sound

• Gravitational → Nuclear, Sound and Thermal

• Electrical → Thermal, Kinetic and Sound

A device that converts electrical energy to electromagnetic energy.

• A blender

• A light bulb

• A bicycle

• A balloon

When gasoline is burned in a car engine, ________ energy is converted into _________ energy.

• thermal, chemical

• chemical, potential

• mechanical, chemical

• chemical, mechanical

What is an example of kinetic energy?

• An apple in a tree

• A bouncy ball on the table

• A car driving on the highway

• A stretched out rubber band

What transformation occurs in a toaster?

• Electrical to light

• Electrical to thermal

• Thermal to mechanical

• Solar to electrical

What type of energy transformation occurs when a piece of wood burns?

• Electrical energy is released as radiant energy

• Stored chemical energy is released as thermal energy

• Mechanical energy is stored as chemical energy

• No transformation occurs

At which point is potential energy greatest?

• W
• X
• Y
• Z