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Physical Science Energy Review

Total questions: 36

Worksheet time: 36mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Energy causes ___________ to occur.
a)
change
b)
motion
c)
age
2.

When plants change the sun's energy into food, which type of energy does the sun energy become?

a)

kinetic

b)

chemical

c)

thermal

3.

What form of energy?

a)

Mechanical energy

b)

Chemical energy

c)

Thermal energy

d)

Sound energy

4.

What kind of energy? (The fire)

a)

Thermal energy

b)

Electric energy

c)

Nuclear energy

d)

Mechanical energy

5.

What form of energy? (Cutting scissors)

a)

Thermal

b)

Electrical

c)

Mechanical

d)

Radiant

6.

What kind of energy?

a)

Electromagnetic

b)

Electrical

c)

Thermal

d)

Chemical

7.

What kind of energy?

a)

Thermal energy

b)

Electromagnetic energy

c)

Chemical energy

d)

Mechanical energy

8.

Which forms of energy are in this picture

a)

Nuclear

b)

Electromagnetic

c)

Chemical

d)

Electrical

9.

Stored energy that comes from how high an object is off the ground or shape of an object is called...

a)

Thermal

b)

Gravitational

c)

Kinetic

d)

Electric

10.

All of the different forms of energy move making them mechanical energy

a)

True

b)

False

11.

All of the different forms of energy can be stored or saved for later.

a)

True

b)

False

12.
Which of the followings are examples of thermal energy?
a)
a violin string plucked, talking, ringing telephone
b)
boiling water, steam, heat from a flashlight
c)
candle flame, light bulb light
d)
energy from the sun (fusion, energy from a nuclear power plant (fission)
13.
Energy is made out of...
a)
Matter
b)
Atoms
c)
Photons
d)
Nothing
14.
Energy takes up space
a)
True
b)
False
15.

This type of energy would be... (Atoms breaking apart to make heat)

a)

Nuclear energy

b)

Chemical energy

c)

Electric energy

d)

Electromagnetic energy

16.
How does heat always transfer?
a)
from cold to hot
b)
from hot to cold
c)
from liquid to solid
d)
from gas to liquid
17.
What type of heat transfer does this picture represent? (pot touching burner)
a)
radiation
b)
conduction
c)
convection
d)
sunshine
18.
What kind of heat transfer does this picture represent?
a)
chocolate chip cookies
b)
radiation
c)
conduction
d)
convection
19.
What type of heat transfer does this picture represent?
a)
radiation
b)
conduction
c)
convection
d)
sunburns
20.
What type of heat transfer does this picture represent?
a)
radiation
b)
conduction
c)
convection
d)
hot air balloons
21.
According to the Law of Conservation of Energy, energy cannot be _________ or ____________. 
a)
destroyed, destroyed
b)
created, saved
c)
created, destroyed
d)
lost, found
22.
Energy transformations occur when...
a)
energy is created through conduction
b)
energy changes from one form to another
c)
two forces slide together that are touching
d)
a chemical reaction takes place
23.
Which energy conversion is taking place when you put gasoline in a car?
a)
thermal -> electrical
b)
mechanical -> electrical
c)
chemical -> mechanical
d)
mechanical -> electromagnetic
24.
what type of energy is stored in a battery?
a)
electrical
b)
chemical
c)
thermal
d)
mechanical
25.
Electrical Energy is transferred to _____ Energy.
a)
Thermal
b)
Solar
c)
Electrical
d)
None
26.
Is a measure of how hot or cold something is 
a)
Cold
b)
Heat
c)
Temperature
d)
Thermal Energy 
27.
An instrument used to measure heat
a)
Thermometer 
b)
Fahrenheit 
c)
Celsius 
d)
Cold 
28.
Any material that does not allow heat to pass through it easily 
a)
Friction
b)
Conductor
c)
Insulator
d)
Magnet
29.
The movement of energy by waves 
a)
Wave
b)
Solar Energy
c)
Heat Waves 
d)
Radiation 
30.
The way in which heat moves through liquids and gases 
a)
convection 
b)
conduction 
c)
conductor
d)
radiator 
31.
Any material that allows heat to move through it easily 
a)
conduction
b)
convection
c)
heat
d)
conductor
32.
The movement of heat within a solid or from one solid to another 
a)
conduction
b)
convection
c)
heat
d)
conductor
33.
Fur, cotton, wool, and plastic are examples of____________
a)
Conductors
b)
Insulators
34.
Which of these has the slowest moving particles
a)
Ice
b)
Lava
c)
Gas
35.

Which of these has the fastest moving particles

a)

Solid

b)

Liquid

c)

Gas

36.

Metal and aluminum foil are good...

a)

Insulators

b)

Conductors

c)

Contractors

d)

Inductors