Potential Energy
Kinetic Energy
Net sports
Things year 8s should know!
Global
100

When a book is lifted from the floor to a shelf, it gains this kind of energy.

What is gravitational potential energy?

100

This is the unit of measurement for kinetic energy in the International System of Units (SI).

What is a joule?

100

This is the number of players each team has on the court during a basketball game.

What is five?

100

This mathematical concept is used to describe the likelihood of an event occurring.

What is probability?

100

The term to describe the increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities.

What is urbanisation?

200

This type of potential energy is stored within the bonds of chemical substances.

What is chemical potential energy?

200

When a car speeds up, its kinetic energy does this.

What is increase?

200

This is when a player jumps and catches a missed shot attempt.

What is a rebound?

200

This type of narrative perspective involves the narrator being a character within the story, often using "I" or "we."

What is first-person perspective?

200

This country is the smallest by land area.

What is Vatican City?

300

This equation, 𝑃𝐸=𝑚𝑔ℎ, calculates gravitational potential energy, where 𝑚 is mass, 𝑔 is the acceleration due to gravity, and ℎ is this.

What is height?

300

This device converts chemical energy into kinetic energy in a car.

What is an engine?

300

This is the total number of players on a netball team.

What is seven?

300

This element, represented by the symbol "O," is essential for respiration in most living organisms.

What is oxygen?

300

This musical instrument, known for its haunting sound, is native to Scotland.

What is the bagpipe?

400

This law states that the total energy in a closed system remains constant; it is often cited in discussions of potential and kinetic energy.

What is the law of conservation of energy?

400

This type of change in energy involves a light changing electrical energy into radiant energy.

What is transformation?

400

The Australian netball team's name.

Who is the Australian Diamonds?

400

This term refers to the period of European history from the 5th to the late 15th century.

What is the Middle Ages?

400

The name of the era when Tokugawa family ruled Japan.

What is the Edo period?

500

This scientist developed the universal law of gravitation, which helps in understanding gravitational potential energy.

Who is Isaac Newton?

500

At absolute zero temperature, this form of kinetic energy of particles ceases to exist.

What is thermal kinetic energy?

500

This player holds the record for the most career points scored in NBA history as of 2023.

Who is LeBron James?

500

This type of figurative language gives human characteristics to non-human objects or animals.

What is personification?

500

This country's flag is a vertical tricolor of green, white, and orange.

What is Ireland?