The Nature of Energy

Match the following

• Energy of a spinning bicycle wheel

• Chemical Potential Energy

• Energy stored in a boulder on a mountain

• Elastic Potential Energy

• Energy that is stored

• Potential Energy

• Energy stored in food

• Gravitational Potential Energy

• Energy stored in a stretched spring

• Kinetic energy

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Two baseballs have the same mass. The ball that is closer to the ground has ​ (a)   gravitational potential energy than the other baseball does. Two trucks have the same velocity but different mass. The truck with the greater mass has ​ (b)   kinetic energy than the other truck does.

• Less
• More

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_____ is the ability to cause change

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A _____ is a unit of measure of all forms of energy.

When an object falls, some of its ​ (a)   energy changes to ​ (b)   energy

• Potential
• Kinetic

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The energy of food and other fuels is _____ potential energy

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Anything that causes change must have energy

• True

• False

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Kinetic energy is energy in the form of motion.

• True

• False

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The joule is the SI unit of energy

• True

• False

According to the law of conservation of energy, energy can be created or destroyed

• True

• False