Junior Cert Physics: Energy Conversions

What is the energy conversion when you plug in a stereo and listen to music?

• electrical to mechanical

• chemical to heat

• electrical to sound

• potential to sound

What is the energy conversion when you burn wood for a fire?

• electrical to thermal

• light to kinetic

• chemical to thermal

• chemical to electrical

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What is the energy conversion when you put batteries in a flashlight to make it turn on?

• chemical to light

• light to kinetic

• chemical to thermal

• nuclear to light

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What is the energy conversion when you plug in a charger to charge a battery?

• electrical to light

• kinetic to potential

• thermal to chemical

• electrical to chemical

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What is the energy conversion when you have a skateboard at the top of the hill then move down?

• kinetic to potential

• potential to kinetic

• potential to thermal

• electrical to kinetic

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What is the energy conversion when a wind turbine turns to provide energy to a power grid?

• electrical to potential

• potential to kinetic

• kinetic to electrical

• nuclear to heat

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What is the energy conversion when you feel the warmth of the sun?

• nuclear to thermal

• nuclear to kinetic

• potential to nuclear

• light to nuclear

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What is the energy conversion when you plug in a fan?

• potential to kinetic

• potential to heat

• heat to electrical

• electrical to kinetic

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What is the energy conversion when you eat food for fuel to go for a run?

• chemical to nuclear

• kinetic to chemical

• chemical to kinetic

• potential to chemical

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What is the energy conversion when photosynthesis takes place as the sun makes a plant grow?

• thermal to chemical

• potential to nuclear

• chemical to potential

• light to chemical

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