Elevate Science Energy

What is energy?

• What you feel after running five miles

• The need to move an object at rest

• The ability to do work or to cause change

• The observation of objects in motion

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What kind of energy is in a moving skateboard?

• Potential

• Kinetic

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Which of the following objects has kinetic energy?

• a ball rolling across the floor

• a bicycle parked at the top of a hill

• leaves lying on the ground beneath a tree

• a sunny windowsill

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Which of the following has no kinetic energy?

• a picture hanging on a wall

• a waterfall

• a ball flying through the air

• a hockey puck sliding across the ice

Energy can cause an object to ______________ the position of its motion. 

• Energy

• Change

• Speed

• Stored

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The faster an object moves, the ________ kinetic energy it has. 

• more

• less

• none of the above

• all of the above 

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__________ is stored energy.

• Potential energy

• Kinetic energy

• None of the above

• All of the above

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What is energy changing from one form to another?

• energy conservation

• energy transformation

• energy creation

• mechanical energy

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What is the primary source of energy for nearly all ecosystems on Earth?

• Wind

• Sunlight

• Geothermal heat

• Water currents

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What is the primary form of energy stored in a stretched rubber band?

• Chemical energy

• Thermal energy

• Potential energy

• Kinetic energy

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