Energy Quiz

What is the ability to do work or cause change called?

• power

• force

• strength

• energy

What is the energy an object possesses due to its position or condition called?

• Mechanical energy

• Kinetic energy

• Potential energy

• Thermal energy

What is the energy of motion called?

• kinetic energy

• thermal energy

• potential energy

• static energy

What is the process of changing one form of energy into another called?

• Energy transmutation

• Energy transfer

• Energy conversion

• Energy transformation

What are the different forms of energy?

• Solid, liquid, gas

• The different forms of energy are mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, electromagnetic, nuclear, and potential.

• Velocity, acceleration, force

• Red, blue, green

What is the energy stored in an object due to its height above the Earth's surface called?

• Gravitational potential energy

• Thermal energy

• Kinetic energy

• Chemical energy

What is the energy an object possesses due to its motion called?

• potential energy

• thermal energy

• kinetic energy

• static energy

What is the energy stored in the bonds of atoms and molecules called?

• physical energy

• chemical energy

• mechanical energy

• nuclear energy

What is the energy that is stored in the nucleus of an atom called?

• nuclear energy

• nuclear power

• nucleic energy

• atomic energy

What is the energy that is stored in the electric and magnetic fields called?

• potential energy

• electromagnetic energy

• kinetic energy

• thermal energy