Types of Energy

What is the ability to do work or cause change?

• reflect
• energy
• refract
• absorb

What is the energy of moving objects, or the energy of moving parts of a machine?

• electrical energy
• solar energy
• mechanical energy
• potential energy

What is energy of motion?

• light energy
• thermal energy
• chemical energy
• kinetic energy

What is the form of energy that is created using heat?  This form of energy makes particles of matter move faster.

• light energy
• thermal energy
• chemical energy
• kinetic energy

What is energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor?

• electrical energy
• solar energy
• mechanical energy
• potential energy

What is the energy something has because of its position?

• electrical energy
• solar energy
• mechanical energy
• potential energy

When a firecracker explodes, stored chemical energy turns into sound and light energy. What other type of energy is also released?

• mechanical

• potential

• electrical

• thermal

_________________ energy is stored in the bonds of compounds.

• Electrical

• Heat

• Radiant

• Chemical

Elastic Energy is

• Kinetic Energy

• Potential Energy

Identify the type of energy represented by the illustration.

• thermal energy

• chemical energy

• nuclear energy

• elastic potential energy