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WorksheetsPotential/Kinetic Review
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
A bicycle rider is traveling up a hill. When the rider reaches the top of the hill, she stops to rest. Then she travels down the hill. Which statement correctly describes the potential energy and the kinetic energy of the bicycle rider?
As the rider moves up the hill, her kinetic energy increases, and her potential energy decreases.
As the rider reaches the bottom of the hill, her kinetic energy and her potential energy decrease.
When the rider is at the top of the hill, her potential energy is the greatest, and her kinetic energy is the least.
When the rider goes down the hill, her potential energy increases, and her kinetic energy decreases.
Conservation of energy means that
energy can be created but not destroyed
energy can be destroyed but not created
energy can be both created and destroyed
energy can be neither created nor destroyed
Kinetic energy can be described as
energy in motion
stored energy
a chemical reaction
connected energy
Which is the best example of an object with only potential energy?
water being poured out of a pitcher
a ball being thrown across a field
a boulder resting on top of a cliff
a boat sailing through the water
Students are investigating changes from potential to kinetic energy by rolling a marble down a ramp made by propping up a plastic ruler on a book and letting it roll down.
Which of the following will change the potential energy the marble starts with?
Adding more books beneath the ruler to increase its height
Pushing the marble down the ramp
Switching the plastic ruler with a wooden one
Replacing the marble with a rock
The illustration shows a roller coaster and indicates four different positions the car might be at as it moves along the track.
At which point in the roller coaster's journey is its potential energy the greatest?
W
X
Y
Z
If a green golf ball is dropped from a height of 7 feet and a yellow golf ball is dropped from a height of 12 feet, which ball has greater potential energy before it is released?
yellow
green
Both have the same amount of potential energy.
Neither will have more potential energy than the other.
What is energy?
what I have after a Monster drink
what 6th graders have in abundance
the ability to do work
none of the above
Using the data table select the best answers that identifies which roller coaster stores the least amount of potential energy.
The Raven
The Legend
The Voyage
They are all equal
Which image contains a roller coaster model that is designed to allow the cart to finish the track with no additional energy?
What variable would you change to increase the kinetic energy of the rolling marble?
Increase the length of the ramp
Increase the height of the ramp
Decrease the length of the ramp
Decrease the height of the ramp
As a marble rolls down a ramp, it goes faster and faster. Which statement best explains this phenomenon?
The ball's potential energy is changing to kinetic energy
The ball is rapidly gaining potential energy from the ramp
The ball is rapidly losing kinetic energy as it rolls down the ramp
The ball will continue gaining kinetic energy until it stops
