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Energy Transfer

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 10mins

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Class
Date
1.

Select all that apply: Which of the following best represents the Law of Conservation of Energy?

a)

Energy CAN change forms

b)

Energy CAN be destroyed AND created

c)

Energy CANNOT be created

d)

Energy CANNOT be destroyed

2.

What is Energy?

a)

The ability to do anything

b)

The ability to cause change or do work

c)

The investigation of nature

d)

A fact of life

3.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Name the Energy Conversion of a dryer.

a)

Chemical→ Thermal and Radiant

b)

Electrical → Elastic, Thermal, and Sound

c)

Gravitational → Nuclear, Sound and Thermal

d)

Electrical → Thermal, Kinetic and Sound

5.

A device that converts electrical energy to electromagnetic energy.

a)

A blender

b)

A light bulb

c)

A bicycle

d)

A balloon

6.

When gasoline is burned in a car engine, ________ energy is converted into _________ energy.

a)

thermal, chemical

b)

chemical, potential

c)

mechanical, chemical

d)

chemical, mechanical

7.

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

8.

What transformation occurs in a toaster?

a)

Electrical to light

b)

Electrical to thermal

c)

Thermal to mechanical

d)

Solar to electrical

9.

What type of energy transformation occurs when a piece of wood burns?

a)

Electrical energy is released as radiant energy

b)

Stored chemical energy is released as thermal energy

c)

Mechanical energy is stored as chemical energy

d)

No transformation occurs

10.
At which point is potential energy greatest?
a)
W
b)
X
c)
Y
d)
Z
11.

Which of the following is an example of a change of kinetic energy into gravitational potential energy?

a)
a person parachuting out of a plane
b)
a car racing around an oval track
c)
a person skiing down a hill
d)
a person walking up a hill
12.
What would have the greatest kinetic energy?
a)
A car driving down a hill.
b)
A person running down a hill. 
c)
A ball rolling down a hill. 
13.
The faster an object moves, the ________ kinetic energy it has. 
a)
more
b)
less
c)
none of the above
d)
all of the above 
14.

Which object shows an energy transformation from electrical to mechanical?

a)
b)
c)
d)
15.

Energy stored in the bonds between two or more atoms....

a)

Chemical Potential

b)

Nuclear Potential

c)

Gravitational Potential

16.

The energy stored in the nucleus of atoms.

a)

Nuclear Potential

b)

Chemical Potential

c)

Gravitational Potential