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Quiz: Introduction to Energy
Read each question. Circle the letter of the correct answer.
1. A ball is sitting at the top of a ramp. As the 4. Which of these is an example of the
ball rolls down the ramp, the potential energy conversion of kinetic energy into
of the ball decreases. What happens to the gravitational potential energy?
potential energy as the ball moves?
A. a person walking up a hill
A. It is lost as gravitational energy.
B. a person skiing down a hill
B. It is converted to kinetic energy.
C. a car racing around an oval track
C. It is destroyed as the ball moves.
D. a person parachuting out of an airplane
D. It is used to make the ball slow down.
5. Which of these statements is an example of
2. A toy robot can walk and talk and runs on energy transfer?
batteries. Which type of energy is stored in
A. an open flame heating a pan of water
the batteries?
B. a plant using sunlight to produce glucose
A. nuclear
C. turning on a flashlight to produce a beam of
B. chemical
light
C. electrical
D. a child rubbing her hands together to warm
D. mechanical them
3. How is mechanical energy calculated?
A. by adding potential energy and kinetic
energy
B. by dividing potential energy by kinetic
energy
C. by multiplying potential energy and kinetic
energy
D. by subtracting potential energy from
kinetic energy
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6. The diagram shows a swinging pendulum. 7. Which term describes the energy that is
During every swing, the pendulum’s speed stored due to the height of an object above
and position change. Three positions during the ground?
the swing are identified as Position 1,
A. kinetic energy
Position 2, and Position 3.
B. chemical energy
C. mechanical energy
D. gravitational potential energy
At which point would most of the
pendulum’s potential energy have been
turned into kinetic energy?
A. Position 1
B. Position 2
C. Position 3
D. The potential and kinetic energies are equal
in all positions.
Read each statement. Write your answer on the lines.
8. Describe how energy is different from work.
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9. A book is sitting on a shelf that is 3.0 meters off the ground. Kinetic energy is found using the formula
1/2 × mass × speed. Potential energy is found by taking mass × g × height, with g as the constant,
9.8 m/s2. What is needed to determine the book’s mechanical energy as it sits on the shelf?
10. Two movers use a ramp to load a piano into a truck.
Describe how the potential energy and kinetic energy of the piano change as it sits on the ground, as it is
moved into the truck, and as it sits in the truck.
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