Harnessing Human Energy Review

Energy due to motion is ____________ energy.

• Potential

• Stored

• Kinetic

• Friction

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Mari is riding a ski lift up a mountain. Does she have more potential energy at the bottom of the mountain or at the top of the mountain?

• Bottom of the mountain

• Middle of the Mountain

• Top of the Mountain

Answer explanation

Top of the Mountain: This is where her height is the greatest, meaning her potential energy is also the greatest.

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What kind of energy is in a rock about to roll off the edge of a cliff?

• Potential
• Kinetic

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Reasoning

• information about the natural world that is used to support or refute a claim

• the process of making clear how your evidence supports your claim

• an object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see

• a set of interacting parts forming a complex whole

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Energy ______________ when it changes types; for example, kinetic energy changes to potential energy and potential energy changes to light energy.

• transfers
• converts

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____________ is the ability to make things move or change.

• Energy

• Force

• Friction

• Motion

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Claim

• information about the natural world that is used to support or refute a claim

• a proposed answer to a question about the natural world

• an object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see

• a set of interacting parts forming a complex whole

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The flywheel transfers energy to the ball launcher.

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-PS3-1

The law of _______________ of energy states that energy cannot be created nor destroyed.

• conservation

• simulation

• collection

• generation

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Evidence

• information about the natural world that is used to support or refute a claim

• a proposed answer to a question about the natural world

• an object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see

• a set of interacting parts forming a complex whole

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NGSS.MS-PS3-5

NGSS.MS-LS1-3