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Energy

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Jumping rope is an example of _____________.
a)
potential energy
b)
kinetic energy
2.
What is NOT a form of energy?
a)
plastic
b)
sound
c)
electrical
d)
light
3.
Which is an example of how electrical energy is used?
a)
sitting in a chair
b)
lighting a light bulb
c)
writing your spelling words
4.
Where does most energy come from? 
a)
wind
b)
the moon
c)
the sun
d)
natural gas
5.
What causes a straw to look bent in a cup of water?
a)
reflection
b)
refraction
c)
absorption
d)
heat 
6.
What causes you to see yourself in a mirror?
a)
refraction
b)
reflection
c)
your light bulb
7.
When you measure the volume of sound what are you measuring
a)
 how high or low the sound is

b)
how loud or soft the sound is
c)
how long or short the sound is
d)
how little or big the sound is
8.
Which color would absorb the sun outside?
a)
black
b)
white
c)
yellow
9.
what is kinetic energy?
a)
movement
b)
being still
10.
What is an example of kinetic energy?
a)
walking across the classroom
b)
sleeping
c)
a ball sitting in the grass
11.
What does light energy do?
a)
Lets you see
b)
lets you hear
c)
makes you warm
d)
makes you move
12.
Which word means energy that comes from the sun?
a)
motion energy
b)
solar energy
c)
electricity
d)
shadow energy
13.
Light travels or moves in curved lines
a)
true
b)
false
14.
A campfire is an example of which two forms of energy?
a)
light and sound
b)
heat and light
c)
sound and motion
d)
motion and electricity
15.
What does heat energy do?
a)
lets you see
b)
lets you hear
c)
makes things warmer
d)
makes things move
16.
Sweeping the classroom is an example of ______________.
a)
potential energy
b)
kinetic energy
17.
A book sitting on a shelf is an example of ______________.
a)
potential energy
b)
kinetic energy
18.
This form of energy is created using heat.
a)
thermal
b)
light
c)
heat
d)
sound
19.
This form of energy is from moving objects, or from moving parts of a machine.
a)
thermal
b)
sound
c)
mechanical
d)
potential
20.
This form of energy is the result of chemicals reacting to each other.
a)
light
b)
chemical
c)
electrical
d)
thermal
21.
the movement of an electric charge from one place to another
a)
electric current
b)
electric charge
c)
electric circuit
22.

What is the path that a controlled electric current flows through.

a)

electric current

b)

electric charge

c)

electric circuit

23.
tiny amounts of energy in the particles of matter
a)
electric current
b)
electric charge
c)
electric circuit
24.
light is blurred
a)
translucent
b)
transparent
25.
light passes through easily
a)
translucent
b)
transparent