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Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 46mins
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Class
Date
1.
What type of energy is in this picture?
a)
Kinetic
b)
Potential
c)
Electromagnetic
2.
Energy causes ___________ to occur.
a)
change
b)
motion
c)
age
3.
When plants convert the sun's energy into food, which type of energy does the sun energy become?
a)
kinetic
b)
chemical
c)
thermal
4.
What form of energy?
a)
Mechanical (kinetic) energy
b)
Chemical (kinetic) energy
c)
Sound (potential) energy
d)
Sound (kinetic) energy
5.
What kind of energy?
a)
Thermal (kinetic) energy
b)
Thermal (potential) energy
c)
Nuclear (kinetic) energy
d)
Mechanical (kinetic) energy
6.
What form of energy?
a)
Thermal
b)
Electrical
c)
Mechanical
d)
Radiant
7.
What kind of energy?
a)
Radiant
b)
Electrical
c)
Thermal
d)
Chemical
8.
What kind of energy?
a)
Thermal (kinetic) energy
b)
Chemical (kinetic) energy
c)
Chemical (potential) energy
d)
Mechanical (kinetic) energy
9.
Which form of energy is being released?
a)
light (potential)
b)
Light (kinetic)
c)
chemical (kinetic)
d)
Electrical (kinetic)
10.
What form of energy do plants use to make sugar in the photosynthetic process?
a)
heat energy
b)
chemical energy
c)
solar energy
d)
kinetic energy
11.
the ability to do work
a)
energy
b)
Matter
c)
photons
d)
potential energy
12.
Stored energy that results from the position or shape of an object is called...
a)
Thermal
b)
Potential
c)
Kinetic
d)
Gravitational
13.
All of the different forms of energy move making them kinetic energy
a)
True
b)
False
14.
All of the different forms of energy can be stored energies.
a)
True
b)
False
15.
Lightning during a thunderstorm is an example of what form of energy?
a)
Radiant (potential) energy
b)
Radiant (kinetic) energy
c)
Electrical (potential) energy
d)
Electrical (kinetic) energy
16.
Energy is made out of...
a)
Matter
b)
Atoms
c)
Photons
d)
Nothing
17.
Energy takes up space
a)
True
b)
False
18.
At what position does the rock have the greatest kinetic energy?
a)
A
b)
B
c)
D
d)
E
19.
This would be...
a)
Mechanical (kinetic) energy
b)
Kinetic (kinetic) energy
c)
Thermal (kinetic) energy
20.
This would be...
a)
Sound (kinetic) energy
b)
Sound (potential) energy
c)
Mechanical (kinetic) energy
21.
What form of energy is being used when a person hits a tennis ball with a tennis racket?
a)
thermal energy
b)
sound energy
c)
light energy
d)
mechanical energy
22.
Will electrical energy flow in an open circuit?
a)
yes
b)
no
23.
What kind of energy is associated with vibrations?
a)
mechanical energy
b)
electrical energy
c)
light energy
d)
sound energy
24.
What type of heat transfer does this picture represent? (pot touching burner)
a)
radiation
b)
conduction
c)
convection
d)
sunshine
25.
What could be added to this picture to make the light bulb work?
a)
an open switch
b)
a closed switch
c)
a rubberband
d)
a wooden sticks
26.
What is the power source in the picture?
a)
battery
b)
copper wire
c)
switch
d)
light
27.
GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY DEPENDS ON
a)
MASS AND VELOCITY
b)
MASS AND WEIGHT
c)
WEIGHT AND HEIGHT
d)
HEIGHT AND DISTANCE
28.
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IS NOT AN EXAMPLE OF POTENTIAL ENERGY?
a)
A BALL TRAVELING AT 10 M/S
b)
A COMPRESSED SPRING
c)
WATER BEING STORED AT A WATER DAM
d)
A STRETCHED RUBBER BAND
29.
YOUR BODY OBTAINS ENERGY FROM THE FOOD YOU EAT. WHAT IS THE FORM OF ENERGY IN FOOD?
a)
KINETIC
b)
ELASTIC
c)
GRAVITATIONAL
d)
CHEMICAL
30.
WHAT ANOTHER NAME FOR THERMAL ENERGY?
a)
HEAT ENERGY
b)
ITS SIZE
c)
ITS POTENTIAL ENERGY
d)
ITS MECHANICAL ENERGY
31.
What kind of energy is in a rock at the edge of a cliff?
a)
Potential
b)
Kinetic
32.
What kind of energy is in a moving skateboard?
a)
Potential
b)
Kinetic
33.
What kind of energy is in a waving hand?
a)
Potential
b)
Kinetic
34.
What kind of energy is in a stretched rubber band?
a)
Potential
b)
Kinetic
35.
At which point is potential energy greatest?
a)
W
b)
X
c)
Y
d)
Z
36.
__________ energy is the energy of motion.
a)
Light
b)
Sound
c)
Kinetic
d)
Chemical
37.
Which of the following is an exmaple of a change of kinetic energy into gravitational potential energy?
a)
a person parachuting out of a plane
b)
a car racing around an oval track
c)
a person skiing down a hill
d)
a person walking up a hill
38.
Which of the following is NOT true about Potential Energy?
a)
An object's position affects its potential energy
b)
Potential energy is Stored energy
c)
Potential energy only occurs when an object is in motion
d)
All objects have potential energy
39.
What would have the greatest kinetic energy?
a)
A car driving down a hill.
b)
A person running down a hill.
c)
A ball rolling down a hill.
40.
The faster an object moves, the ________ kinetic energy it has.
a)
more
b)
less
c)
none of the above
d)
all of the above
41.
Food has _________ energy.
a)
Potential
b)
Kinetic
c)
None of the above
d)
All of the above
42.
What kind of energy is in flowerpot sitting on a windowsill?
a)
Potential
b)
Kinetic
43.
Jumping rope is an example of _____________.
a)
potential energy
b)
kinetic energy
44.
What is NOT a form of energy?
a)
plastic
b)
sound
c)
electrical
d)
light
45.
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
46.
Where does most energy come from?
a)
wind
b)
the moon
c)
the sun
d)
natural gas
47.
what is kinetic energy?
a)
movement
b)
being still
48.
What is an example of kinetic energy?
a)
walking across the classroom
b)
sleeping
c)
a ball sitting in the grass
49.
What does light energy do?
a)
Lets you see
b)
lets you hear
c)
makes you warm
d)
makes you move
50.
Which word means energy that comes from the sun?
a)
motion energy
b)
solar energy
c)
electricity
d)
shadow energy
51.
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
52.
What does heat energy do?
a)
lets you see
b)
lets you hear
c)
makes things warmer
d)
makes things move
53.
Sweeping the classroom is an example of ______________.
a)
potential energy
b)
kinetic energy
54.
A book sitting on a shelf is an example of ______________.
a)
potential energy
b)
kinetic energy
55.
This form of energy is created using heat.
a)
thermal
b)
light
c)
heat
d)
sound
56.
This form of energy is from moving objects, or from moving parts of a machine.
a)
thermal
b)
sound
c)
mechanical
d)
potential
57.
This form of energy is the result of chemicals reacting to each other.
a)
light
b)
chemical
c)
electrical
d)
thermal
58.
the movement of an electric charge from one place to another
a)
electric current
b)
electric charge
c)
electric circuit
59.
What is the path that a controlled electric current flows through.
a)
electric current
b)
electric charge
c)
electric circuit
60.
tiny amounts of energy in the particles of matter
a)
electric current
b)
electric charge
c)
electric circuit
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