Energy Study Guide High School

Energy is:

• The ability to do work

• The amount of power

• Movement

• Causing things to happen

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Kinetic energy is

• Stored energy

• Force acting on objects

• Associated with movement

• Measured in speed

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Potential energy is:

• A type of kinetic energy

• A fuel

• Associated with movement

• Stored energy

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Mass is measured in:

• J

• lbs

• kg

• N

What type of energy is in this picture?

• Kinetic energy

• Rubber energy

• Elastic energy

• Stored energy

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When glow sticks snap, they produce a glow. What energy transformation takes place?

• Thermal to light

• Light to radiant

• Potential to heat

• Chemical to light

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Energy is neither created or destroyed, it is simply transferred between objects or transformed into

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Work is:

• The amount of energy used in creating a force

• The amount of energy used in moving an object

• The amount of energy used in creating power

• Annoying

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Work is equal to:

• Force x distance

• Power divided by time

• Mass x distance

• Newtons x metres

The following scenario relates to a rollercoaster:

When at the top of a hill, a cart has _________ energy, as it travels down the track, it has _______ energy.

• Kinetic, potential

• potential, generational

• potential, kinetic

• kinetic, exhilirating

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