Energy Review

What is Energy?

• The ability to do anything

• The ability to cause change

• The investigation of nature

• A fact of life

What is an example of kinetic energy?

• A bird sitting in a tree

• A bouncy ball on the table

• A car driving on the highway

• A book on shelf

What is an example of potential energy?

• A bowling ball rolling down a lane

• A car parked in a lot

• An apple falling from a tree

• Sunlight heating up the atmosphere

Energy cannot be created or destroyed.

• True

• False

What is an example of sound energy?

• A thermometer heating up

• Solar panels generating electricity

• A guitar string being plucked

• A machine in an assembly line

What transformation occurs in a toaster?

• Electrical to radiant

• Electrical to thermal

• Thermal to mechanical

• Solar to electrical

Energy due to motion is ____________ energy. 

• Potential 
• Energy
• Kinetic
• Friction

The ultimate source of energy is:

• The sky
• The sun
• Plants
• Movement

What is NOT a form of energy?

• plastic
• sound
• electrical
• light

Students get their energy from

• food

• gasoline

• electricity

• sunlight