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Energy stores and pathways

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the unit for measuring energy?
a)
Newton
b)
Kilogram
c)
Joule
d)
Jewel
2.
What is the name for energy stored in a hot object?
a)
Thermal
b)
Potential
c)
Fire
d)
Electrical
3.
What type of energy is stored in food and fuel?
a)
Chemical
b)
Thermal
c)
Potential
d)
Calories
4.
When an object is moved to a higher position, what name is given to the energy it then stores?
a)
Gravitational Potential
b)
Elastic
c)
Height
d)
Kinetic
5.
Which of the following is the name for the energy stored in atoms?
a)
Potential
b)
Thermal
c)
Nuclear
d)
Explosive
6.
What kind of energy is represented in this picture?
a)
Thermal
b)
Potential
c)
Nuclear
d)
Mechanical
7.
A cat is sleeping on a tree branch. What type of energy does the cat possess?
a)
kinetic energy
b)
gravitational energy
c)
elastic energy
8.
Conservation of energy
a)
Energy can not be created or destroyed
b)
The energy stays in the same energy stores
c)
When energy is kept
d)
When an object stays moving at a constant speed
9.

At the bottom of the bungee jumper's first bounce, where is the energy stored?

a)

Kinetic energy store

b)

Gravitatioanl potential energy store

c)

Elastic potential energy store

d)

Disipated to the enviroment

10.
What are the energy transfers when a ball bounces?
a)
kinetic → heat → kinetic
b)
kinetic → sound → gravitational
c)
kinetic → elastic → kinetic
d)
elastic → kinetic → elastic
11.
Which object is NOT attracted to a magnet?
a)
iron nail
b)
paper
c)
paper clip
d)
safety pin
12.

What is the energy transfer for a lightbulb?

a)

Electrical -> Elastic

b)

Electrical -> Thermal

c)

Magnetic -> Elastic

d)

Gravitational -> Chemical

13.

What is the energy transfer for a sky diver?

a)

Gravitational potential -> Kinetic

b)

Gravitational potential -> Thermal

c)

Thermal -> Elastic

d)

Chemical -> Gravitational potential

14.

What is the energy stored in this weight lifter?

a)

Elastic

b)

Gravitational potential

c)

Chemical

d)

Electrical

15.

What is the energy transfer when the weightlifter lifts up the weights?

a)

Chemical -> Elastic

b)

Chemical -> Gravitational potential

c)

Electrical -> Chemical

d)

Magnetic -> Chemical

16.

What is the energy transfer when the weightlifter drops the weights to the floor?

a)

Gravitational potential -> Kinetic

b)

Kinetic -> Gravitational potential

c)

Chemical -> Gravitational potential

d)

Elastic -> Chemical

17.
According to which law of energy, energy can't be created or destroyed?
a)
First law of motion
b)
The law of tacos
c)
Laws of Energy
d)
law of conservation of energy
18.
You hit the brakes on your bike. The bike slows down and the brake pads increase in temperature.
What type of energy decreased when you hit the brakes?
a)
kinetic energy
b)
gravitational energy
c)
elastic energy
d)
thermal energy
19.
In which of these cases is work being done? 
a)
A student sleeps
b)
A student pushes a locked door that does not move
c)
a student carries his chair into another room
d)
A student sits on the carpet
20.
Which activity needs the most energy?
a)
 Running for an hour
b)
Walking for an hour
c)
Cycling for an hour
d)
Swimming for an hour
21.
Which food contains the most energy per 100g?
a)
Peas
b)
Chips
c)
Cooked beef
d)
Chocolate
22.
Which type of energy stote is to do with food foels and batteries?
a)
thermal
b)
kinetic
c)
chemical
d)
elastic
23.
True or false. Energy can be created and destroyed.
a)
True
b)
False
24.
What energy store is associated with a tennis ball held 1 m above the floor?
a)
Thermal
b)
Gravitaional
c)
Elastic
d)
Kinetic
25.
Which of these animals is a big cat?
a)
Buffalo
b)
Sea gull
c)
Leopard
d)
Tiger
26.
Does a person with insomnia have trouble with...
a)
Eating
b)
Walking
c)
Sleeping
d)
Breathing
27.
Is India in Africa, Asia, Texas, or South America?
a)
Africa
b)
Asia
c)
Texas
d)
South America
28.
What two color make green?
a)
Yellow/ red
b)
Blue/red
c)
Orange/pink
d)
Yellow/blue
29.
Which planet is the fifth from the sun?
a)
Mars
b)
Jupiter
30.
Which travel faster?
a)
Light
b)
Sound