WorksheetsIdentifying and Calculating Types of Energy
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
What best describes the types of energy transfer occurring in the solar panel?
Solar to Kinetic
Kinetic to Potential
Chemical to Electrical
Solar to Electrical
What best describes the type of energy transfer happens as the wind turbine spins?
mechanical to electrical
potential to electrical
kinetic to potential
potential to mechanical
What energy transfers are happening as the sun's light hits the apple and the horse easts the apple?
Solar to Potential to Chemical
Chemical to Potential to Kinetic
Potential to Chemical to Kinetic
Solar to Kinetic to Mechanical
How much kinetic energy does the cart have for section A?
5000 J
25,000 J
20,000 J
0 J
How much total mechanical energy does the cart have for section B?
25,000 J
20,000 J
0 J
14,000 J
How much potential energy does the cart have for section C?
25,000 J
20,000 J
0 J
14,000 J
How much total mechanical energy does the cart have for section D?
25,000 J
20,000 J
0 J
9,500 J
How much kinetic energy does the cart have for section E?
25,000 J
20,000 J
0 J
9,500 J
What is the amount of potential energy for position A?
150,000 J
0 J
75,000 J
300,000 J
What is the amount of total mechanical energy for position B?
150,000 J
0 J
75,000 J
300,000 J
What is the amount of potential energy for position C?
150,000 J
0 J
75,000 J
300,000 J
What is the amount of total mechanical energy for position D?
150,000 J
0 J
75,000 J
300,000 J
What is the amount of kinetic energy for position E?
150,000 J
0 J
75,000 J
300,000 J
What best describes the type of energy stored in these batteries?
Thermal Energy
Chemical Energy
Solar Energy
Electrical
If an object is sitting still on a table, what type of energy does it have?
Potential
Kinetic
The Dungeon Drop theme park ride drops guests at free fall speed. What type of motion do the guests have as they are descending?
Potential
Kinetic
Eating food allows us to store potential energy to transfer into kinetic later. What type of energy is stored in food?
Potential
Solar
Chemical
Electrical
A 1,350 kg package is dropped from a plane from a height of 760 meters. What is it's potential energy right before it starts to fall?
PE = mgh
10,054,800 J
1,026,000 J
12,038,800 J
753,291 J
You toss a piece of cake at your friend who probably deserved it. The cake has a mass of 0.56 kg and was thrown at a speed of 17 m/s. What kinetic energy did the piece of cake have?
KE = (1/2)mv2
4.76 J
80.82 J
76.02 J
8.97 J
