Potential and KInetic

Which statement is TRUE?

• Energy can be created

• Energy can be destroyed

• Energy can be transformed

• Energy can be made

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NGSS.HS-PS3-3

What is POTENTIAL energy?

• Energy that is stored, waiting to be used

• Energy that is in motion, being used

• Energy that is transformed, in motion

• Energy that is destroyed

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NGSS.MS-PS3-2

What is KINETIC energy?

• Energy that is stored, waiting to be used

• Energy in motion

• Energy being destroyed

• Energy being created to use

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NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Which of the following is an example of POTENTIAL energy?

• A dog running down the street

• An airplane flying in the sky

• A bowling ball rolling down the bowling land

• A rubber band being stretched and held

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NGSS.MS-PS3-2

Which of the following is an example of KINETIC energy?

• A football thrown and released into the air

• A rubber band being stretched and held

• A book sitting on a shelf

• A child sitting at the top of a slide

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NGSS.MS-PS3-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

Which statement is true?

• The more potential energy an object has, the more kinetic energy it will have

• The more kinetic energy an object has, the more potential energy it will have

• Energy can be created

• Energy can be destroyed

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NGSS.MS-PS3-5

What is one way you can change an object's potential energy?

• You cannot change its potential energy

• Change the state of matter

• Increase the height to change its position

• Change the shape of the object

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NGSS.MS-PS3-2

What is one way you change an object's potential energy?

• Change the shape of the object

• Increase the mass to make it heavier

• Change the state of matter

• Change the color of the object

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NGSS.MS-PS3-2

Which object will have the greatest potential energy?

• A book on the bottom shelf

• A book in the trash can

• A book on the floor

• A book on the top shelf

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NGSS.MS-PS3-2

At which point will a roller coaster have the greatest potential energy?

• At the top of the biggest hill

• Going down the smallest hill

• At the bottom of the hill

• At the bottom of a loop

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NGSS.MS-PS3-2