Types of Energy

Which of the following is not a form of potential energy?

• Heat

• Chemical

• Elastic

• Nuclear

The energy we receive from the sun is in the form of:

• electrical and sound energy

• heat and nuclear energy

• electrical and light energy

• heat and light energy

The energy needed to make a car move along a flat road, to launch a rocket into outer space and to operate a small calculater is converted from:

• kinetic energy

• chemical potential energy

• thermal (heat) energy

• gravitational potential energy

When a bicycle skids to a stop, its kinetic energy is transformed into mostly:

• heat and sound energy

• potential energy

• sound energy

• heat and light energy

The faster an object moves:

• the more potential energy it has

• the more kinetic energy it has

• the slower its particles vibrate

• the cooler it gets

Which object has the highest gravitational potential energy?

• a boy on a trampoline who is touching the mat, but not yet bounced

• a girl who has stretched a hair elastic 20cm

• a boy who has dropped a ball from a height of 1m

• a girl who has bounced on a trampoline and risen into the air by 150cm

Stored energy is called ______ energy.

• Kinetic
• Potential
• Pacific
• Safe

Gravitational potential is when an object is MOVING or falling. TRUE or FALSE?

• True

• False

Fireworks release the following energy types

• light

• heat

• sound

• all of the above

Energy stored in the bonds of atoms and molecules is __________ potential energy.

• Chemical  
• Elastic
• Nuclear
• Gravitational