What is energy?

• The ability to do work or cause change

• The ability to make or destroy

• The ability to move or give off light

• The ability to change form and be transferred

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Which of the following is an example of potential energy?

• Moving car

• Kids at the top of a waterslide

• Stretched out rubber band

• Soccer ball getting ready to be kicked

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What determines the amount of kinetic energy an object has?

• Its weight and size

• Its position

• Its speed

• Its shape

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What determines the amount of kinetic energy a moving car has?

• Its weight and size

• Its position on the road

• Its speed

• Its shape

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Which of the following is an example of electrical energy?

• Boiling water

• Charging your cell phone

• Talking

• Riding a bike

Which state of matter keeps its shape?

• Solid

• Liquid

• Gas

• None of the above

When you freeze water, what state of matter does it become?

• Solid

• Liquid

• Gas

• None of the above

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What happens to molecules in a gas?

• They move very little and are closer together

• They take the shape of their container

• They move very fast and are spread apart

• They stay still and don't move

Imagine you have a balloon filled with helium. What happens to the helium molecules inside the balloon?

• They move very little and are closer together

• They take the shape of their container, the balloon

• They move very fast and are spread apart

• They stay still and don't move

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What is a collision?

• The action of one object bumping into another

• The action of one object passing through another

• The action of one object disappearing

• The action of one object changing shape

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