Types of Energy Quiz
  • 1. What is the total amount of potential and kinetic energy called?
A) total energy
B) energy sum
C) mechanical energy
D) fundamental energy
  • 2. What type of energy is stored in a stretched rubber band?
A) gravitational potential energy
B) elastic potential energy
C) chemical potential energy
D) rubber band potential energy
  • 3. what type of energy is stored in the molecular bonds of a substance?
A) chemical potential energy
B) elastic potential energy
C) gravitational potential energy
D) kinetic energy
  • 4. What happens to an object's kinetic as you increase it's speed?
A) it increases
B) it decreases
C) it stay the same
  • 5. What does GPE stand for in physics?
A) gravity's pull (on) earth
B) gravitational possible energy
C) gravitational potential energy
D) gravity pulls everything
  • 6. If an object can fall, what sort of energy does it have before falling?
A) elastic energy
B) gravitational potential energy
C) kinetic energy
D) falling energy
  • 7. What is the SI unit of energy?
A) Joule
B) Newton
C) kg*m/s
D) m/s2
  • 8. Define kinetic energy.
A) the energy of motion
B) the energy due to location
C) the energy from the sun
D) the energy stored in bonds
  • 9. What is the law of conservation of energy?
A) energy cannot be destroyed
B) once destroyed, all energy comes back again
C) energy before equals energy after
D) energy can only change form
  • 10. What is energy stored as heat called?
A) chemical energy
B) thermal energy
C) kinetic energy
  • 11. What is the kinetic energy of a jogger with a mass of 65 kg traveling at a speed 2 m/s?
A) 260 J
B) 65 J
C) 130 J
D) 32.5 J
  • 12. What is the mass of a ball that has a kinetic energy of 115 J and is traveling at 9 m/s?
A) 23.5 kg
B) 2.84 kg
C) 1035 kg
D) 12.8 kg
  • 13. What is the kinetic energy of a 0.45 kg ball that is traveling at a speed of 35 m/s?
A) 77.8 J
B) 15.75 J
C) 154.35 J
D) 275.6 J
  • 14. Find the GPE of a street light that has a mass of 12 kg and is 5 m above the ground.
A) 150 watts
B) 60 J
C) 2.4 J
D) 588 J
  • 15. A exercise ball is on a table 2.5 m above the ground. What is the mass of the ball if it has a GPE of 56.8 J?
A) 2.32 kg
B) 71 kg
C) 22.72 kg
D) 142 kg
  • 16. A steel ball whose mass is 2 kg is rolling at a rate of 4 m/s. What is its momentum?
A) 8 kg*m/s
B) 4 kg*m/s
C) 16 kg*m/s
D) 2 kg*m/s
  • 17. Which has greater momentum, a 32 ounce bird traveling 100 mph or a 100 pound dog traveling at 2 mph?
A) Trick question - birds do not have momentum.
B) The bird
C) They have the same momentum.
D) The dog
  • 18. What physics concept is defined as being either a push or a pull?
A) energy
B) velocity
C) force
D) acceleration
  • 19. Is it possible for an object to have no potential energy and have no kinetic energy?
A) not if it is on the planet earth
B) yes
C) no
  • 20. Define potential energy.
A) energy that is the result of being located above the ground.
B) a type of mechanical energy.
C) the energy of motion.
D) energy that has the potential to become anything it wants.
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