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Grade 4 Energy

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 32mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What form of energy is being used when a person pushes heavy boxes across the floor?

a)

Electrical energy

b)

Mechanical energy

c)

Heat energy

d)

Sound energy

2.

A girl turned the light off and went to bed. She remembered she had accidentally left her glass of ice water on the counter. When she got up the next morning, the ice had melted. What form of energy caused the ice to melt?

a)

Sound energy

b)

Light energy

c)

Thermal energy

d)

Mechanical energy

3.

Which form of energy is produced when a guitar string vibrates?

a)

Sound energy

b)

Electrical energy

c)

Chemical energy

d)

Light energy

4.

Which form of energy is produced when a lamp is switched on?

a)

Sound energy

b)

Electrical energy

c)

Chemical energy

d)

Light energy

5.
What kind of energy?
a)
Thermal
b)
Electrical
c)
Mechanical
d)
Radiant
6.
What kind of energy does this device use?
a)
Chemical
b)
Electrical
c)
Thermal
d)
Chemical
7.
Sound is caused by? 
a)
force
b)
vibrations
c)
instruments
d)
air
8.

Which of the following is a way thermal energy is used at school every day?

a)

Cooking food for lunch

b)

Writing with a pencil

c)

Looking in a mirror

d)

Turning on the lights

9.

Identify the type of energy

a)

Thermal energy

b)

Sound energy

c)

Mechanical energy

d)

Electrical energy

10.
________ is the ability to do work.
a)
Light
b)
Energy
c)
Heat 
d)
Sound
11.
Energy you can see is _________. 
a)
sound energy
b)
heat energy
c)
light energy
12.
What happens when you turn up the volume on the radio? 
a)
It gets louder. 
b)
The sound decreases. 
c)
It gets softer. 
d)
It gets brighter. 
13.
If you rub your hands together, you will produce ________ energy. 
a)
light
b)
heat
c)
sound
d)
heat and sound 
14.
Energy that warms objects is called _____. 
a)
light energy
b)
sound energy 
c)
heat energy
d)
structures
15.
What sound would you hear at the Zoo?
a)
A School Bell
b)
A Lion Roar
c)
A Cow Moo
d)
A Car Honk
16.
Which Item has sound energy?
a)
A feather
b)
A party hat
c)
A bell
d)
A lollipop 
17.
What is one way that we can use heat energy?
a)
to cook
b)
to make light
c)
to cool our school
18.
What type of energy from the sun provides sunshine and heat?
a)
Solar
b)
Sound
c)
Mechanical
d)
Electrical
19.

What type of energy transformation occurs, when a hawk eats a mouse and then uses the energy from the mouse to fly?

a)

mechanical energy to chemical energy

b)

thermal energy to mechanical energy

c)

chemical energy to mechanical energy

d)

mechanical energy to thermal energy

20.
Which of the following energy transformations occur when a lamp that is plugged into a wall socket is functioning correctly?
a)
Chemical to light
b)
Electrical to chemical
c)
Electrical to light
d)
Chemical to electrical
21.
A hairdryer converts -- 
a)
electrical energy into chemical
b)
electrical energy into thermal
c)
chemical energy into mechanical
d)
thermal energy into mechanical
22.

What kind of energy is represented in the picture?

a)

Thermal

b)

Chemical

c)

Sound

d)

Kinetic

23.

Which form of energy would most likely be affected by change in weather

a)

geothermal

b)

natural gas

c)

wind

d)

nuclear

24.

What energy transformation occurs when a crock pot is plugged into an outlet and then the control knob is turned "on"?

a)

thermal to electrical

b)

mechanical to thermal

c)

electrical to thermal

d)

electrical to sound

25.

What type of energy is electrons flowing through a wire?

a)

Electrical energy

b)

Chemical energy

c)

Kinetic energy

d)

Mechanical energy

26.

What type of energy is stored in batteries or food?

a)

Potential energy

b)

Thermal energy

c)

Chemical energy

d)

Mechanical energy

27.

Energy that transfers heat is?

a)

Thermal energy

b)

Potential energy

c)

Mechanical energy

d)

Kinetic energy

28.

1. Which form of energy does a moving object possess?

a)

light energy

b)

sound energy

c)

mechanical energy

d)

chemical energy

29.

The motion of an object is called _____?

a)

flowing energy

b)

kinetic energy

c)

potential energy

d)

sun energy

30.

A car gets energy from ______?

a)

sunlight

b)

gasoline

c)

food

31.

A plant gets its energy from

a)

food

b)

gasoline

c)

sunlight

d)

electricity

32.

A spider eats flies regularly. Which is the prey in this example?

a)

the spider

b)

the fly

c)

neither

d)

them both

33.

Why do consumers need producers?

a)

to stay healthy

b)

to collect sunlight

c)

to provide them energy

d)

they don't need producers

34.

Why are decomposers important?

a)

they break down dead animals and replace nutrients in the soil.

b)

they provide energy to consumers

c)

they make their own food

d)

they collect sunlight

35.

All parts of the food chain are important but which part is the MOST IMPORTANT?

a)

the producers

b)

the primary consumers

c)

the secondary consumers

d)

none of the above

36.

Which animal in the food chain is an herbivore and eats only plants?

a)

wolf

b)

hedgehog

c)

fox

d)

grasshopper

37.

What is a producer?

a)

living thing that makes its own food

b)

living thing that consumes plants and/or other animals

38.

What is a consumer?

a)

a living thing that makes its own food

b)

a living thing that consumes plants and other animals

39.

This picture shows a _____________.

a)

food chain.

b)

animals playing and living together.

c)

hawk eating the grass.

d)

how the sun eats the hawk.

40.

Skunks eat insects, bird eggs, and fruit. Which group do skunks belong to?

a)

producer

b)

carnivore

c)

omnivore

d)

herbivore

41.

Which living thing is a predator?

a)
b)
c)
42.

Which living things are producers in the ocean?

a)

whale

b)

fish

c)

seaweed

d)

dolphins

43.

An herbivore eats __________.

a)

other animals

b)

plants

c)

other animals and plants

44.

An omnivore eats __________.

a)

plants

b)

other animals

c)

both plants and animals

45.

A carnivore eats _____________.

a)

other animals.

b)

berries.

c)

lettuce.

d)

pickles.

46.

What is a food chain?

a)

the order of how one living thing eats and gets energy from another living thing

b)

the order you make when you go to Mc Donalds

47.
Where do all life forms get their energy?
a)
Earth's Core
b)
Water
c)
Plants
d)
The Sun
48.
Animals that are being hunted and eaten by predators.
a)
prey
b)
extinct
49.

Which kind of energy change occurs when a candle is burning?

a)

Chemical to light

b)

light to electrical

c)

Solar to heat

d)

chemical to electrical

50.

When fuel burns, it gives us____ and ____ energy.

a)

Electrical

b)

Heat

c)

Light

d)

Sound