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Energy stores and pathways

Total questions: 99

Worksheet time: 50mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of these animals is a big cat?
a)
Buffalo
b)
Sea gull
c)
Leopard
d)
Tiger
2.
Does a person with insomnia have trouble with...
a)
Eating
b)
Walking
c)
Sleeping
d)
Breathing
3.
Is India in Africa, Asia, Texas, or South America?
a)
Africa
b)
Asia
c)
Texas
d)
South America
4.
What two color make green?
a)
Yellow/ red
b)
Blue/red
c)
Orange/pink
d)
Yellow/blue
5.
What is the unit for measuring energy?
a)
Newton
b)
Kilogram
c)
Joule
d)
Jewel
6.
What is the name for energy stored in a hot object?
a)
Thermal
b)
Potential
c)
Fire
d)
Electrical
7.
What type of energy is stored in food and fuel?
a)
Chemical
b)
Thermal
c)
Potential
d)
Calories
8.
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
9.
Which of the following is the name for the energy stored in atoms?
a)
Potential
b)
Thermal
c)
Nuclear
d)
Explosive
10.
Which planet is the fifth from the sun?
a)
Mars
b)
Jupiter
11.
Which travel faster?
a)
Light
b)
Sound
12.
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
13.
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
14.
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
15.
Which object is NOT attracted to a magnet?
a)
iron nail
b)
paper
c)
paper clip
d)
safety pin
16.
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
17.
What kind of energy is represented in this picture?
a)
Thermal
b)
Potential
c)
Nuclear
d)
Mechanical
18.
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
19.
Which food contains the most energy per 100g?
a)
Peas
b)
Chips
c)
Cooked beef
d)
Chocolate
20.
True or false. Energy can be created and destroyed.
a)
True
b)
False
21.
What energy store is associated with a tennis ball held 1 m above the floor?
a)
Thermal
b)
Gravitaional
c)
Elastic
d)
Kinetic
22.
Which type of energy stote is to do with food foels and batteries?
a)
thermal
b)
kinetic
c)
chemical
d)
elastic
23.
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
24.
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
25.

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

26.

What is the energy transfer for a lightbulb?

a)

Electrical -> Elastic

b)

Electrical -> Thermal

c)

Magnetic -> Elastic

d)

Gravitational -> Chemical

27.

What is the energy transfer for a sky diver?

a)

Gravitational potential -> Kinetic

b)

Gravitational potential -> Thermal

c)

Thermal -> Elastic

d)

Chemical -> Gravitational potential

28.

What is the energy stored in this weight lifter?

a)

Elastic

b)

Gravitational potential

c)

Chemical

d)

Electrical

29.

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

30.

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

31.

8kg cement helps us remember the energy stores.


What does the 8 show?

a)

There are 8 types of energy store

b)

nothing, it just makes the sentence complete

c)

8 energy pathways

d)

8 ways of using energy

32.

8kg cement helps us remember the 8 energy stores.


Which energy store begins with k ?

a)

kinetic

b)

knockout

c)

knowledge

d)

Keplar

33.

8kg cement helps us remember the 8 energy stores.


Which energy store begins with g ?

a)

ghostly

b)

gravitational potential

c)

geothermal

d)

gold

34.

8kg cement helps us remember the 8 energy stores.


Which energy store begins with c ?

a)

circular

b)

chemical

c)

car

d)

chlorine

35.

8kg cement helps us remember the 8 energy stores.


Which 2 energy store begins with e ?

a)

electrostatic and elastic

b)

electrical and electrostatic

c)

electrical and energetic

d)

electrical and elastic

36.

8kg cement helps us remember the 8 energy stores.


Which energy store begins with m ?

a)

movement

b)

momentum

c)

magnetic

d)

molecular

37.

8kg cement helps us remember the 8 energy stores.


Which energy store begins with n ?

a)

nitrogen

b)

Newton

c)

nucleus

d)

nuclear

38.

8kg cement helps us remember the 8 energy stores.


Which energy store begins with t ?

a)

thermal

b)

temperature

c)

tin

d)

thunder

39.

HERM helps us remember the energy transfer pathways.

How many pathways are there?

a)

3

b)

4

c)

5

d)

10

40.

HERM helps us remember the 4 energy transfer pathways.


What does the H stand for?

a)

Hubble

b)

heat

c)

hotter

d)

Hermes

41.

HERM helps us remember the 4 energy transfer pathways.


What does the E stand for?

a)

electricity

b)

electrostatic

c)

elastic

d)

energetic

42.

HERM helps us remember the 4 energy transfer pathways.


What does the R stand for?

a)

radioactive

b)

Rubidium

c)

radiation (sound and light)

d)

radio

43.

HERM helps us remember the 4 energy transfer pathways.


What does the M stand for?

a)

metal

b)

methane

c)

magnetic

d)

mechanical work

44.

Energy cannot be ________ or _________,


(select the two missing words)

a)

created

b)

useful

c)

destroyed

d)

transferred

45.

The total amount of energy ____________________ as it moves between stores and pathways.

a)

changes

b)

increases

c)

remains the same

d)

decreases

46.

Energy can be ___________ ?

a)

wasted

b)

used up

c)

created

d)

destroyed

47.

A rock falls off a cliff. Its gravitational energy store is transferred to ______________ as it falls to the ground.

a)

electrical energy

b)

magnetic store

c)

radiation

d)

the kinetic store

48.

A ball is thrown up in the air. As it is slowing down, the energy in it's kinetic store is being transferred to__________?

a)

gravity

b)

the gravitational store

c)

the air

d)

magnetic store

49.

Select the ALL the correct statements

a)

The chemical store is in the torch's battery

b)

pathways are represented by arrows

c)

stores are represented by boxes

d)

the radiation pathway is the useful energy pathway

50.

What is the unit of energy?

a)

joule

b)

watt

c)

metre

d)

pascal

51.

Hot objects have energy in this energy store

a)

Thermal

b)

Elastic Potential

c)

Gravitational Potential

d)

Chemical

52.

A roller coaster at the top of a hill has energy in this energy store.

a)

Gravitational Potential

b)

Thermal

c)

Elastic Potential

d)

Chemical

53.

Food, fuels and batteries have energy in this energy store

a)

Chemical

b)

Thermal

c)

Gravitational Potential

d)

Elastic

54.

A stretched rubber band has energy in this energy store

a)

Magnetic

b)

Electrostatic

c)

Elastic

d)

Nuclear

55.

Two magnets close together have energy in this energy store.

a)

Chemical

b)

Elastic

c)

Magnetic

d)

Gravitational Potential

56.

Two negatively charged particles which are close together have energy in this energy store

a)

Electrostatic

b)

Magnetic

c)

Nuclear

d)

Elastic

57.

Energy stored in the nucleus of an atom

a)

Nuclear

b)

Magnetic

c)

Electrostatic

d)

Chemical

58.

Every moving object has energy in this energy store

a)

Kinetic

b)

Elastic

c)

Chemical

d)

Nuclear

59.

Energy which is transferred as a wave, for example light.

a)

Mechanically

b)

Electrically

c)

By Radiation

d)

By Heating

60.

Energy which is transferred by charges moving due to a potential difference (voltage)

a)

Mechanically

b)

Electrically

c)

By Radiation

d)

By Heating

61.

Energy which is transferred by a force moving an object through a distance

a)

Mechanically

b)

Electrically

c)

By Radiation

d)

By Heating

62.

Energy which is transferred due to temperature difference caused electrically or by a chemical reaction.

a)

Mechanically

b)

Electrically

c)

By Radiation

d)

By Heating

63.
What type of energy is stored in food and fuel?
a)
Chemical
b)
Thermal
c)
Potential
d)
Calories
64.
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
65.
Which of the following is the name for the energy stored in atoms?
a)
Potential
b)
Thermal
c)
Nuclear
d)
Explosive
66.

The energy going into an energy transfer is always equal to the energy coming out. True or False?

a)

True

b)

False

67.
A TV does not give off this type of energy.
a)
Light
b)
Thermal
c)
Sound
d)
Solar
68.
"Stored energy" is another way of describing what energy type?
a)
Potential
b)
Electrical
c)
Kinetic
d)
Mechanical
69.
What form of energy is also described as "energy of motion"?
a)
Potential
b)
Mechanical
c)
Kinetic
d)
Electrical
70.
What type of energy transfer is most likely responsible when a plant converts the suns energy into food?
a)
Chemical to Solar
b)
Solar to chemical
c)
Light to electrical
d)
Electrical to chemical
71.
Which form of energy is mostly produced in this conversion?
a)
Electrical
b)
Mechanical
c)
Thermal
d)
Sound
72.
Which form of energy is least important in this tool?
a)
Electrical
b)
Light
c)
Sound
d)
Thermal
73.
Which form of energy is mostly produced in this conversion?
a)
Electrical
b)
Mechanical
c)
Thermal
d)
Sound
74.

A hot drink has...

a)

Kinetic Energy

b)

Heat Energy

c)

Thermal Energy

d)

Nuclear Energy

75.

A cyclist at the top of a hill has...

a)

Kinetic Energy

b)

Chemical Potential Energy

c)

Elastic Potential Energy

d)

Gravitational Potential Energy

76.

Humans get their energy from...

a)

Chemical Potential Energy

b)

Thermal Energy

c)

Kinetic Energy

d)

Nuclear Energy

77.

Energy Stored in an atoms nucleus is..

a)

Atomic Energy

b)

Electrostatic Energy

c)

Nuclear Energy

d)

Elemental Energy

78.

Energy stored in objects being stretched or squashed...

a)

Elastic Potential Energy

b)

Kinetic Energy

c)

Chemical Energy

d)

Thermal Energy

79.

Energy Carried in wires...

a)

Electricity

b)

Current Energy

c)

Thermal Energy

d)

Electrostatic Energy

80.

What is the main energy transfer that happens in a gas heater?

a)

Electrical energy to heat energy

b)

Chemical potential energy to heat energy

c)

Kinetic energy to heat energy

d)

Chemical potential energy to kinetic energy

81.

What is “useful output” energy?

a)

Energy that is used by the appliance

b)

Useful energy that is put into the system

c)

Energy that is produced that we cannot use

d)

Energy that is produced that we can use to do work

82.

What does it mean if a system is “energy efficient”?

a)

It has less wasted output energy

b)

It has less useful output energy

c)

It has more input energy than output energy

d)

Energy is used quickly

83.

What is “wasted output” energy?

a)

Energy that is used by the appliance

b)

Useful energy that is put into the system

c)

Energy that is produced that we can use to do work

d)

Energy that is produced that we cannot use

84.

In an electric drill, the input energy is electrical energy. Which of these is useful output energy?

A – Sound energy B – Kinetic energy C – Heat energy

a)

A, B

b)

B, C

c)

A, C

d)

B

85.

In an electric drill, the input energy is electrical energy. Which of these is wasted output energy?

A – Sound energy B – Kinetic energy C – Heat energy

a)

A, B

b)

A, C

c)

B, C

d)

B

86.

In a microwave oven, the input energy is electrical energy. Which of these is useful output energy?

A – Sound energy B – Kinetic energy C – Heat energy

D – Light energy

a)

A, B, C

b)

A

c)

B, C, D

d)

C

87.

In a microwave oven, the input energy is electrical energy. Which of these is wasted output energy?

A – Sound energy B – Kinetic energy C – Heat energy

D – Light energy

a)

A

b)

A, B, C

c)

C

d)

B, C, D

88.

Which of these objects store chemical energy?

a)

battery

b)

light bulb

c)

petrol

d)

pizza

89.

(a)   energy is the energy stored by moving objects.

90.

(a)   energy is another word for heat energy.

91.

Which of these are stores of nuclear energy?

a)

Stars

b)

Batteries

c)

Atoms

d)

Nuclear bombs

92.

Speakers, TVs and your voice are all stores of (a)   energy.

93.

Select the correct energy transfer for a light bulb

a)

Light -> Sound

b)

Electrical -> Light

c)

Chemical -> Light + Sound

d)

Electrical -> Light + Sound

94.

In a closed system the amount of energy remains constant.

a)

True

b)

False

95.

A stretched spring stores (a)   potential energy.

96.

In your own words, state the Law of Conservation of Energy.

4 lines
97.

The unwanted energy produced by an object is called the (a)   energy.

98.

The energy transfer for a TV is:

electrical -> light + sound + heat


Which of the energies are useful?

a)

electrical

b)

light

c)

sound

d)

heat

99.

The energy transfer for a car engine is:

chemical -> kinetic + sound + heat


Which of the energies are wasted?

a)

chemical

b)

kinetic

c)

sound

d)

heat

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