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Energy & Chemistry

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Sound, heat, rainbows and organic lettuce are all made of ___

a)

atoms

b)

organic compounds

c)

chemicals

d)

energy

2.

Which scientist figured out that mass and energy are just different forms of the same thing?

a)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

b)

Albert Eistein

c)

Enrico Fermi

d)

Niels Bohr

3.

Which form of energy is due to the imperceptible jiggling of atoms and molecules?

a)

mass-energy equivalence

b)

gravitational energy

c)

chemical energy

d)

thermal energy

4.

Which form of energy is associated with the bonds between the atoms?

a)

rest mass energy

b)

thermal energy

c)

chemical energy

d)

zero-point energy

5.

Ancient generals, working with the trebuchet, were interested in which form of energy?

a)

mass energy

b)

chemical potential energy

c)

thermal energy

d)

gravitational potential energy

6.

Energy that is stored, and can be converted to other forms of energy in the future, is called ___

a)

potential energy

b)

enthalpy

c)

heat

d)

hidden energy

7.

Which law of thermodynamics is also known as "the law of conservation of energy" ?

a)

the zeroth law

b)

the first law

c)

the second law

d)

the third law

8.

Thermodynamics is the branch of science studying heat, energy, and the ability of that energy to ___

a)

be created

b)

be destroyed

c)

do work

d)

be stored

9.

Which Nobel Prize-winning physicist said "we have no knowledge of what energy is"?

a)

Niels Bohr

b)

Richard Feynman

c)

Werner Heisenberg

d)

Wolfgang Pauli

10.

What is defined as "the capacity to do work or produce heat"?

a)

the system

b)

the surroundings

c)

thermodynamics

d)

energy

11.

Work is when a force acts on something, causing it to ___

a)

remain stationary

b)

cool down

c)

heat up

d)

move

12.

Heat, just like work, is ___

a)

stored energy

b)

an energy transfer

c)

a force

d)

represented by the lowercase "w"

13.

Heat is a transfer of energy by thermal interactions, such as ___

a)

reflection or refraction

b)

diffraction or thermal reflection

c)

resistance or electrical conduction

d)

radiation or thermal conduction

14.

The most common symbol for heat is ___

a)

lowercase "q"

b)

lowercase "w"

c)

uppercase "H"

d)

lowercase "h"

15.

In thermodynamics, the thing that we're studying is called ___

a)

the prime directive

b)

the trebuchet

c)

the system

d)

the surroundings

16.

In thermodynamics, everything else that we're not studying is called ___

a)

latent heat

b)

internal energy

c)

the system

d)

the surroundings

17.

The sum of a system's kinetic and potential energy is called ___

a)

external energy

b)

internal energy

c)

total potential energy

d)

nuclear energy

18.

The way we represent change in chemistry and physics is with the Greek letter ___

a)

delta

b)

beta

c)

gamma

d)

iota

19.

The change in the energy of a system is equal to ___

a)

the work

b)

the work minus the heat

c)

the heat plus the work

d)

the heat minus the work

20.

Chemical energy, due to the position of the particles in a molecule, is a kind of ___

a)

kinetic energy

b)

radiation

c)

thermal energy

d)

potential energy

21.

What kind of reaction involves heat flowing out of a system, resulting in a decrease in ΔE?

a)

an endothermic reaction

b)

an exothermic reaction

c)

an adiabatic reaction

d)

an isothermic reaction

22.

What kind of reaction involves heat flowing into a system, resulting in an increase in ΔE?

a)

an endothermic reaction

b)

an exothermic reaction

c)

an adiabatic reaction

d)

an isothermic reaction

23.

Chemistry, it turns out, is largely a study of ___

a)

trebuchets

b)

energy

c)

oxygen

d)

high temperatures