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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is energy?
Is the ability to cause change in matter.
Is Earth's rocky outer layer.
Is an organism that cannot make its own food
Is a tool that measures mass.
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is kinetic energy?
Is a tool that measures mass.
Is the path that an object takes around another object in space.
Is the energy of motion.
Is the energy something stores because of its position or condition.
- 3. Multiple Choice
What is potential energy?
Is the energy of motion.
Is the energy something stores because of its position.
Is a tool that measures mass.
Is the path that an object takes around another object in space.
- 4. Multiple Choice
What is mechanical energy?
Is the ability to cause change in matter.
Is the ability to cause change in matter.
Is energy in motion.
Is the total potential energy and kinetic energy of an object.
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is electrical energy?
Is a form of kinetic energy that comes from electric currents. Anything plugged into a wall outlet.
Is the ability to cause change in matter.
Is the energy of motion.
Is the energy something stores because of its position or condition.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Paul plugs a radio into an electrical outlet and turns it on. What change in energy takes place when he does this?
Light energy changes into sound energy.
Chemical energy changes into sound energy.
Sound energy changes into electrical energy.
Electrical energy changes into sound energy.
- 7. Multiple Choice
Fossil fuels are the most common source of energy. What else is true of fossil fuels?
They are renewable.
They form quickly underground.
They are made in a laboratory.
They are burned to release energy.
- 8. Multiple Choice
A rolling ball has kinetic energy. What does it mean for an object to have kinetic energy?
The object has stored energy.
The object is in motion.
The object has used all of its energy.
The object is passing on its energy.
- 9. Multiple Choice
Objects can have potential energy because of their position. Which object has potential energy?
flag flapping in the wind
hands turning on a clock
book sitting on a table
spinning wheels on a bike
- 10. Multiple Choice
Objects may have potential energy or kinetic energy. How do potential energy and kinetic energy compare to each other?
Both describe objects at rest.
Both describe objects in motion.
Both are forms of mechanical energy.
An increase in one leads to an increase in the other
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which one is an example of chemical energy?
A camp fire burning.
A radio plugged up to an outlet.
A roller coaster ride running on the tracks.
A frog jumping into a pond.
- 12. Multiple Choice
What is sound energy?
The vibration of an object.
The ability to cause change in matter.
Anything plugged into a wall outlet.
Energy of motion.
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