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UNIT 5 - Force, Motion, Energy

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What types of energy is all around us?

a)

Light Energy

b)

Sound Energy

c)

Heat Energy

d)

Work Energy

e)

Compound Energy

2.

Energy can be divided into what two groups?

a)

Potential and Kinetic

b)

Heat and Friction

c)

Sound and Friction

d)

Motion and Kinetic

3.

What is the energy of motion?

a)

Potential

b)

Kinetic

c)

Sound

d)

Heat

4.

What is stored energy called?

a)

Potential

b)

Kinetic

c)

Sound

d)

Heat

5.

What is force?

a)

A push or pull that caused an object to move.

b)

Used in Star Wars to defeat the bad guys.

6.

A basketball rolls on the ground and eventually stops. What made the basketball stop?

a)

Balance

b)

Friction

c)

Attraction

d)

Magnetism

7.

What did Michael Faraday discover that electric current in a wire produces?

a)

molecules

b)

chemicals

c)

vibration

d)

magnetic field

8.

What protection would rubber gloves be for an electrician?

a)

produce electricity

b)

create an electrical circuit

c)

insulate the electrician

d)

keep the electrician dry

9.

Which is a conductor of electricity?

a)

Rubber

b)

Newspaper

c)

Glass

d)

Metal

10.

What did Thomas Edison invent?

a)

He invented the light bulb

b)

He discovered that lightning is a form of electricity

c)

He invented a generator that would produce electricity

d)

He discovered the nucleus of an atom

11.

What describes a skateboards motion?

a)

mass and volume

b)

direction and speed

c)

speed and color

d)

volume and direction

12.

What type of circuit has two or more paths?

a)

Insulator

b)

Series Circuit

c)

Parallel Circuit

d)

Conductor

13.

What did Benjamin Franklin invent?

a)

Light bulb

b)

Lightning rod

c)

Electromagnet

d)

Washing Machine

14.

Mrs. Johnstone turns the lights off in the classroom. What kind of circuit does that make?

a)

an open circuit

b)

a parallel circuit

c)

a closed circuit

d)

a series circuit

15.

Which is caused by static electricity?

a)

Earthquake

b)

Hail

c)

Tornado

d)

Lightning

16.

Which of these changes electrical energy into heat energy

a)

Hair Dryer

b)

Fan

c)

Alarm Clock

d)

Telephone

17.

Which three objects below are used as insulators?

a)

Metal

b)

Rubber

c)

Plastic

d)

Wood

18.

How is the electromagnet different than a permanent magnet?

a)

An electromagnet can only pick up paperclips and a permanent magnet can pick up anything

b)

An electromagnet can be turned on and off and a permanent magnet is aways magnetic.

c)

A permanent magnet is made of plastic and an electromagnet is made of metal.

d)

A permanent magnet has a magnetic fiel and an electromagnet does not.