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Forms of energy

Total questions: 48

Worksheet time: 43mins

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 is energy?

a)

The ability to do work

b)

A force

c)

Electricity

d)

The ability to transform work

6.
Energy of motion is which type of energy?
a)
Potential
b)
Kinetic
c)
Sound
d)
Gravitational
7.
The type of energy that allows us to hear is
a)
Mechanical
b)
Sound
c)
Light
d)
Electric
8.
What kind of energy is represented in this picture?
a)
Thermal
b)
Potential
c)
Nuclear
d)
Mechanical
9.
What kind of energy?
a)
Thermal
b)
Electrical
c)
Mechanical
d)
Radiant
10.
What kind of energy does this device use?
a)
Chemical
b)
Electrical
c)
Thermal
d)
Chemical
11.
What kind of energy is represented in the picture?
a)
Thermal
b)
Chemical
c)
Sound
d)
Nuclear
12.
Kinetic Energy is:
a)
Energy of motion
b)
always conserved
c)
Energy due to position
13.
Potential Energy is:
a)
The energy of motion
b)
always conserved
c)
The energy due to position
14.
what type of energy is stored in a battery?
a)
electrical
b)
chemical
c)
thermal
d)
mechanical
15.
Which of the following is NOT mechanical energy?
a)
Pedaling a bike
b)
Rowing a boat
c)
Turning on a light bulb
d)
Running up a hill
16.
Which of the following is NOT a form of thermal energy?
a)
Sun
b)
Bicycle moving
c)
Fire
d)
Oven
17.
How is light energy different than sound energy?
a)
Light energy moves slower.
b)
Light energy is what you see and sound energy is what you hear.
c)
Light energy uses vibrations and sound energy does not.
d)
Light energy is in a cell phone and sound energy is not.
18.
A stick of butter is placed in a pot to make macaroni and cheese. The butter melts. What causes the butter to melt?
a)
thermal energy
b)
sound energy
c)
light energy
d)
gravity
19.
The Sun produces
a)
light and heat energy
b)
sound and light energy
c)
heat and sound energy
d)
electrical and light energy
20.
The is the energy due to the splitting of atoms. 
a)
nuclear 
b)
chemical 
c)
mechanical 
d)
sound 
21.

Click ALL the forms of energy for this picture (the windmill)

a)

Mechanical

b)

Chemical

c)

Radiant

d)

Thermal

e)

Electrical

22.

Click ALL the forms of energy for this picture (batteries)

a)

Mechanical

b)

Chemical

c)

Radiant

d)

Thermal

e)

Electrical

23.

Click ALL the forms of energy for this picture (the sound)

a)

Mechanical

b)

Chemical

c)

Radiant

d)

Thermal

e)

Electrical

24.

Click ALL the forms of energy for this picture: (the fire)

a)

Mechanical

b)

Chemical

c)

Radiant

d)

Thermal

e)

Electrical

25.

Click ALL the forms of energy for this picture (the outlet)

a)

Mechanical

b)

Chemical

c)

Radiant

d)

Thermal

e)

Electrical

26.

Click ALL the forms of energy for this picture (inside the banana)

a)

Mechanical

b)

Chemical

c)

Radiant

d)

Thermal

e)

Electrical

27.

Click ALL the forms of energy for this picture (the x-ray)

a)

Mechanical

b)

Chemical

c)

Radiant

d)

Thermal

e)

Electrical

28.

Click ALL the forms of energy for this picture (the lightbulbs)

a)

Mechanical

b)

Chemical

c)

Radiant

d)

Thermal

e)

Electrical

29.

Click ALL the forms of energy for this picture (the gasoline)

a)

Mechanical

b)

Chemical

c)

Radiant

d)

Thermal

e)

Electrical

30.

Click ALL the forms of energy for this picture (the ball on the hill)

a)

Mechanical

b)

Chemical

c)

Radiant

d)

Thermal

e)

Electrical

31.

Click ALL the forms of energy for this picture (the microwave)

a)

Mechanical

b)

Chemical

c)

Radiant

d)

Thermal

e)

Electrical

32.

Click ALL the forms of energy for this picture (the sun)

a)

Mechanical

b)

Chemical

c)

Radiant

d)

Thermal

e)

Electrical

33.

Click ALL the forms of energy for this picture (the hot chocolate)

a)

Mechanical

b)

Chemical

c)

Radiant

d)

Thermal

e)

Electrical

34.

Which forms of energy lets you use your cell phone?

a)

Mechanical

b)

Chemical

c)

Radiant

d)

Thermal

e)

Electrical

35.

Click ALL the forms of energy for this picture (the lamp)

a)

Mechanical

b)

Chemical

c)

Radiant

d)

Thermal

e)

Electrical

36.
Stored energy 
a)
Thermal Energy
b)
Stored Mechanical Energy
c)
Kinetic Energy
d)
Potential Energy
37.
Compressed springs and stretched rubber bands are examples.
a)
Potential Energy
b)
Stored Mechanical Energy
c)
Radiant Energy
d)
Kinetic Energy
38.
The internal energy in substances-the vibration or movement of atoms and molecules in substances. 
a)
Radiant Energy
b)
Thermal Energy
c)
Chemical Energy
d)
Electrical Energy
39.
Energy of place or position. 
a)
Gravitational Energy
b)
Mechanical Energy
c)
Thermal Energy
d)
Chemical Energy
40.
Energy stored in the nucleus of an atom-the energy that holds the nucleus together. The energy in the nucleus of a uranium atom is an example.
a)
Electrical Energy
b)
Nuclear Energy
c)
Radiant Energy
d)
Potential Energy
41.
Electromagnetic energy that travels in transverse waves. 
a)
Sound Energy
b)
Thermal Energy
c)
Radiant Energy
d)
Gravitational Energy
42.
Motion Energy
a)
Stored Mechanical Energy
b)
Potential Energy
c)
Electrical Energy
d)
Kinetic Energy
43.
Movement of electrons. 
a)
Nuclear Energy
b)
Radiant Energy
c)
Mechanical Energy
d)
Electrical Energy
44.
The Law of Conservation of Energy states:
a)
Energy can created or destroyed but not transformed 
b)
Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only transformed
c)
Energy can't be created, destroyed or transformed
45.
A disturbance that travels through a medium as a longitudinal wave
a)
sound
b)
wavelength
c)
pitch
d)
frequency
46.

What is energy efficiency?

a)

the amount of useful energy you get from a system

b)

converting one form of energy into another

c)

chemical process that provides energy

d)

energy is released form its chemical bonds for use by the cells

47.
The change of position over time is called
a)
position
b)
motion
c)
speed
d)
location
48.
Energy stored in the bonds of atoms and molecules. 
a)
Chemical Energy
b)
Radiant Energy
c)
Stored Mechanical Energy
d)
Gravitational Energy