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WorksheetsEnergy Vocabulary Quiz 1
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is kinetic energy?
a)
The energy of motion
b)
A combination of two types of energy
c)
Stored energy
d)
How far something goes in a specific time
2.
What is potential energy?
a)
The energy of motion
b)
A combination of two types of energy
c)
Stored energy
d)
How far something goes in a specific time
3.
Look at the cars on the ramp example. What happens when the person lets the cars go?
a)
Potential energy turns to kinetic
b)
Kinetic energy turns to potential
c)
The energy transfers to the ramp
d)
The energy transfers to the person
4.
Stretching a rubber band is an example of...
a)
Potential energy
b)
Kinetic energy
c)
Mechanical energy
5.
Which of the following has potential energy?
a)
A roller coaster at the top of a hill
b)
A rolling marble
c)
A running dog
6.
Energy is...
a)
the ability to do work
b)
moving an object
c)
causing nothing to change
d)
the ability to stay the same
7.
A roller coaster has both kinetic and potential energy.
a)
True
b)
False
8.
The roller coaster cart has the most kinetic energy at position-
a)
W
b)
X
c)
Y
d)
Z
9.
According to the Law of Conservation of Energy, energy cannot be _________ or ____________.
a)
destroyed, destroyed
b)
created, saved
c)
created, destroyed
d)
lost, found
10.
What kind of energy is in a person running?
a)
Potential
b)
Kinetic
11.
What kind of energy is in flowerpot sitting on a windowsill?
a)
Potential
b)
Kinetic
12.
What kind of energy is in a rock at the edge of a cliff?
a)
Potential
b)
Kinetic
13.
What energy is pulling an arrow back
a)
kinetic energy
b)
potential energy
c)
energy
14.
What type of energy is in this picture?
a)
Kinetic
b)
Potential
c)
Chemical
d)
Sound
15.
What is an example of kinetic energy?
a)
An apple in a tree
b)
A bouncy ball on the table
c)
A car driving on the highway
d)
A stretched out rubber band
16.
What is an example of potential energy?
a)
A bowling ball rolling down a lane
b)
A car parked in a lot
c)
An apple falling from a tree
d)
Sunlight heating up the atmosphere
17.
At which point is potential energy greatest?
a)
W
b)
X
c)
Y
d)
Z
18.
In science, when one object runs into another we call it a __________.
a)
crash
b)
hit
c)
strike
d)
collision
19.
moving something against a force like gravity
a)
work
b)
motion
c)
energy
d)
collision
20.
The act or a particular way of changing place, movement
a)
work
b)
motion
c)
energy
d)
collision
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