Energy Transformation Study Guide

Question 1

What unit is used to measure energy?

Answer 1

Joule

Question 2

When a roller coaster is at the top of a hill it has what type of energy?

Answer 2

Gravitational Potential Energy

Question 3

What kind of energy is stored in food?

Answer 3

Chemical Energy

Question 4

Light, x-rays, and radio waves are all types of what kind of energy?

Answer 4

Electromagnetic Energy

Question 5

What type of energy is stored in the bonds between atoms?

Answer 5

Chemical Energy

Question 6

What is the sum of potential and kinetic energy?

Answer 6

Mechanical Energy

Question 7

What kind of energy is stored in the nucleus of an atom?

Answer 7

Nuclear Energy

Question 8

What kind of energy is the energy of movement?

Answer 8

Kinetic Energy

Question 9

What kind of energy does a stretched rubber band have?

Answer 9

Elastic Potential Energy

Question 10

What is the ability to do work or cause change?

Answer 10

Energy

Question 11

What is the law of the conservation of energy?

Answer 11

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but can change from one form to another.

Question 12

When you play the guitar, what kind of energy does the vibration of the strings create?

Answer 12

Sound Energy

Question 13

What kind of energy is sunlight, potential or kinetic?

Answer 13

Kinetic Energy

Question 14

What kind of energy is food, potential or kinetic?

Answer 14

Potential Energy

Question 15

What kind of energy is a moving car, potential or kinetic?

Answer 15

Kinetic Energy

Question 16

What kind of energy is a battery, potential or kinetic?

Answer 16

Potential Energy

Question 17

What kind of energy is the sound of a horn, potential or kinetic?

Answer 17

Kinetic Energy

Question 18

What kind of energy is a ball at the top of a hill, potential or kinetic?

Answer 18

Potential Energy

Question 19

Which system shows a transformation from chemical to electrical and light energy?

A. A car battery causes the headlights to shine.

B. A candle burns and lights up the room.

C. A display of fireworks in the night sky.

D. An avalanche rolls down a steep

Answer 19

A. A car battery causes the headlights to shine.

Question 20

Which has more potential energy?

a. empty jar on a shelf

b. full jar on a shelf

c. full jar rolling up a ramp

d. full jar rolling down a ram

Answer 20

b. full jar on a shelf

Question 21

Which of the following is NOT a form of energy?

a. Air

b. light

c. heat

d. sound

Answer 21

a. air

Question 22

An object is in motion if:

a. its position changes relative to its surroundings.

b. energy is applied to the object.

c. a force is applied to it

d. it loses energy.

Answer 22

a. its position changes relative to its surroundings.

Question 23

Gravitational Potential energy is affected by the object’s mass and what other condition?

a. weight

b. height

c. size

d. energy

Answer 23

b. height

Question 24

What kind of energy does any object above the ground that gravity can
affect have?

Answer 24

Gravitational Potential Energy

Question 25

What kind of energy do objects with moving particles like ovens, light bulbs, or fires have?

Answer 25

Thermal Energy

Question 26

What kind of energy do fuels, blocks of wood, batteries, and foods have?

Answer 26

Chemical Energy

Question 27

What kind of energy do stars (sun), tanning beds (UV), infrared lights,
and light bulbs have?

Answer 27

Electromagnetic Energy

Question 28

What kind of energy do generators, dams, wind turbines have?

Answer 28

Mechanical Energy

Question 29

What kind of energy does anything that makes noise like speakers or computers have?

Answer 29

Sound Energy

Question 30

What kind of energy does anything that gives off a light like light bulbs or a
television have?

Answer 30

Light Energy

Question 31

What determines speed?

Answer 31

Distance and Time