Energy Essentials: A Quiz on Potential and Kinetic Energy

What is potential energy?

• Energy in motion

• Stored energy due to an object's position or condition

What is kinetic energy?

• The energy an object has due to its motion

• The energy stored within an object at rest

Which type of energy is stored in a stretched rubber band?

• Potential Energy

• Chemical Energy

• Kinetic Energy

• Solar Energy

Which of the following scenarios involves kinetic energy?

• A book sitting on a shelf

• Water stored behind a dam

• A rolling ball

• A stretched bow

Which energy type?
A mousetrap set and ready to spring

• Potential
• Kinetic

Which energy type?
A pile of coal that will be used for fuel

• Potential
• Kinetic

Which energy type?
A dam holding back a river’s water

• Potential
• Kinetic

Which energy type?
A marble rolling down the aisle of your science classroom

• Potential
• Kinetic

Which energy type?
An ant crawling across a sandwich at a picnic

• Potential
• Kinetic

A slingshot that has been pulled back, but has not been let go.

• Kinetic

• Potential