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100
The pendulum on a clock swings back and forth each second. As the pendulum swings from its highest point down to the middle, what happens to the mechanical energy? 
What is potential energy is converted to kinetic energy and back again
100
How does the sound waves increase the kinetic energy of the particles in a medium? 
What is it causes the particles to move more.
100
An apple falls from a tree. When does it have the least gravitational potential energy? 
When it is lying on the ground.
100
Potential energy that is related to an object's height above the ground is known as 
What is gravitational potential energy.
100
Mr. Young decided to park his car on a steep hill and apply the brakes with the engine off. Because of the position of the car, it now has gravitational potential energy. How can we transform this gravitational potential energy into kinetic energy? 
What is release the brakes. 
200
Water at the top of a waterfall possess what types of energy? 
kinetic energy and gravitational potential energy
200
3 friends that are the same mass are parachuting through the air after they all jumped from the same height. Person 1 is 100 ft from the ground, person 2 is 75 feet from the ground and person 3 is at 25 ft from the ground. Who has transferred the most KE to his surroundings?
What is person 3. 
200
An Apple is falling from a tree. When does it have the most gravitational potential energy? 
What is when it is hanging in the tree, prior to falling. 
200
What type of energy is energy that results from the movement of charged particles through conducting material? 
What is electrical energy.
200
Bill drops the ball to the ground. As the ball falls, it's _______ energy decreases and its _____ energy increases
What is gravitational potential, kinetic. 
300
If you are riding a roller coaster, which sections of the track is kinetic energy converted to potential energy?
What is the bottom of a hill to the top of a hill.
300
Jose is standing at the top of a ski slope. Jose has potential energy. What gives Jose his potential energy?
What is gravity.
300
A skateboarder is skating in a half-pipe ramp. When do they have the most potential energy?
What is at the top of the ramp.
300
An apple falls from the tree. The apple has the least kinetic energy when 
What is when it isn't moving (when it is hanging in the tree or when it is on the ground)
300
The rate at which an object moves is the object's ____
What is speed
400
The amount of space between two objects is ______
What is the distance.
400
Penny is at basketball practice and coach told them to shoot free throws. She is about to shoot a free throw, when she releases the ball what type of energy (or energies) will the ball have? 
What is potential and kinetic energy. 
400
If an object is moving at a consistent rate of 5 meters per second, how long would it take the object to travel 50 meters? 
What is 10 seconds.
400
If an object is 4 feet off the ground it gains a certain Potential Energy. If it is raised to 16 feet off the ground its potential energy is....
What is 4 times as much.
400
Stored energy
What is potential energy.
500
Fill in the blank... Objects that have potential energy do not _____ until they _____. 
what is use their energy until they move.
500
An insulator is 
A material that does not allow electricity to travel through them. 
500
A conductor is 
What is a material that allows electricity to travel through them.
500
What is the correct transformations of energy from a battery to a light bulb.
What is chemical, electrical, light then thermal. 
500
What are reasons electrical energy can be classified as kinetic energy? 
What is electrical energy is associated with the back-and-forth movement of charged particles within conducting materials. 
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