Energy

The ability to do work or cause change is called

• energy
• power
• force
• motion

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The unit used to measure energy is called a(n) _____________

• meter
• kilogram
• joule
• watt

True or False: Energy is neither created nor destroyed; it can only be transformed from one form to another.

• True
• False

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When the mass of an object increases,

• the amount of kinetic AND potential energy increases
• the amount of kinetic energy increases and the amount of potential energy decreases
• the amount of kinetic AND potential energy decreases

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What is another name for light or radiant energy?

• chemical
• sound
• electromagnetic
• mechanical

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The total potential and kinetic energy of the particles in an object is called ___________energy; also called heat energy

• Thermal energy

• Radiant energy

• Electric energy

• Sound energy

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The energy stored in the chemical bonds that hold chemical compounds together; examples include batteries and food

• thermal

• chemical

• mechanical

• sound

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The two factors that affect gravitational potential energy are

• mass and speed
• mass and velocity
• height and weight
• height and speed

When you stretch a rubber band, you give it

• kinetic energy
• elastic potential energy
• gravitational potential energy
• chemical energy

If a dump truck and a motor cycle are both traveling at the same speed down a hill, which will have the greatest kinetic energy?

• dump truck
• motor cycle
• they both have the same kinetic energy

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