Energy Unit Test

Name:

1. Things that are moving have ____________________ energy.

• Solar
• Kinetic
• Potential

2. _____________ cannot be created or destroyed.

• Energy
• Building
• Pendulums

3. If an ball is held up over your head in the air it has ______________________ energy.

• Heat
• Kinetic
• Potential

4. A sled going down a hill has ________________.

• Kinetic Energy
• Electric Energy
• Potential Energy

5. Energy can be transferred through _________________.

• Heat
• Light
• Electricity
• All of the above

6. If you know that an object has a large amount of potential energy, what is most likely true about the object?

• It is big.
• It is high off the ground
• It is going slow

7. A spring that is tightly compressed (squeezed) has what kind of energy?

• electrical
• sound
• potential
• kinetic

8. When you feel heat from the sun, what kind of energy are you feeling?

• light
• electrical
• heat

9. An example of electrical energy being transferred into sound energy is:

• a radio playing music
• pushing boxes
• plugging a phone in to charge it