Types and Concepts of Energy

What are the two basic categories into which all forms of energy fall?

• Light and Sound Energy

• Thermal and Electrical Energy

• Potential and Kinetic Energy

• Chemical and Nuclear Energy

What is potential energy?

• Energy of motion

• Stored energy or energy of position

• Energy from light waves

• Energy from heat

How is chemical energy released from food during digestion?

• Through nuclear fusion

• By stretching and compressing

• Through cellular respiration

• By converting light energy

Where is nuclear energy stored?

• In chemical bonds

• In the nucleus of an atom

• In stretched objects

• In moving particles

What type of energy is stored when you stretch a rubber band?

• Gravitational energy

• Chemical energy

• Elastic potential energy

• Thermal energy

What type of energy does water held behind a dam have?

• Kinetic energy

• Gravitational energy

• Electrical energy

• Sound energy

Which type of energy does not need matter to be transmitted?

• Sound energy

• Thermal energy

• Mechanical energy

• Radiant energy

What happens to thermal energy when the particles in a substance move faster?

• It decreases

• It stays the same

• It increases

• It converts to sound energy