Vocabulary
Multiple Choice
Short Response
Illustrations
Random
100
A resource that can be replaced is
A. fossil fuels
B. renewable resource
C. potential energy
B. renewable resource
100
What type of energy does a moving car have?
A. electrical energy
B. kinetic energy
B. kinetic energy
100
Name an example in which their is potential energy or kinetic energy.
Potential: sitting at the top of a slide, an arrow pulled back on a bow
Kinetic: running, jumping, kicking, swimming, sliding
100
Which resource is renewable?
A. gas
B. Coal
C. Oil
D. Wind
D. Wind
100
Coal, oil, and gas are...
A. resource
B. fossil fuels
C. nonrenewable resource
B. fossil fuels
200
Another word for burning is...
A. kinetic energy
B. combustion
C. fossil fuels
B. combustion
200
Which of the following is a way to save energy resources?
A. Use a blanket instead of turning on the heater.
B. Keep the house cool by turning on the air conditioning.
C. Turn on the light during the day.
A. Use a blanket instead of turning on the heater.
200
Tyler and his sister went to the beach. Tyler sat in the sun, and his sister sat in the shade. Infer what happened to each person's skin temperature. Explain.
Tyler's skin temperature increased, but his sister's did not because she was in the shade. Tyler received more heat energy from sunlight.
200
What type of energy is shown below? How do you know?
Kinetic energy is shown because the roller coaster is currently moving.
200
Something in nature that people use...
A. fossil fuels
B. energy
C. resource
D. renewable resource
C. resource
300
The ability to make something move or change...
A. potential energy
B. kinetic energy
C. energy
C. energy
300
Which of the following are fossil fuels?
A. coal and natural gas
B. light and oil
C. water and coal
D. heat and natural gas
A. coal and natural gas
300
In Molly's town everyone drives a car to go anywhere. People leave their appliances on all the time, use their heaters or air conditioners every day, and do not recycle materials. Infer what will happen to the world if everyone acts the way people do in Molly's town.
Using so much energy will cause the world to run out of fossil fuels, which are not renewable.
300
At what point is potential energy shown. At what point is kinetic energy shown?
Step 1 and 2 are potential energy. In step 3 the ball is flying which is kinetic energy.
300
Which resource is nonrenewable?
A. wind
B. oil
C. sunlight
D. water
B.oil
400
The energy of position..
A. kinetic energy
B. resource
C. potential energy
D. nonrenewable resource
C. potential energy
400
What kind of energy do plants need to grow?
A. chemical
B. electrical
C. light
D. sound
C. light
400
List five ways that you can conserve energy at home or at school.
1. Turn off lights.
2. Turn off water when brushing your teeth.
3. Recycle paper.
4. Use a blanket instead of turning on the heater.
5. Open the binds/curtains during the day instead of turning on the lights.
400
What type of energy is shown?
A. Electrical energy
B. Light energy
C. Kinetic energy
D. Potential energy
C. Kinetic energy
400
Which ball as potential energy?
A. The smaller ball
B. The bigger ball
C. They both have potential energy
D. Neither has potential energy
C. They both have potential energy.
500
Resource that cannot be replaced...
A. combustion
B. energy
C. renewable resource
D. nonrenewable resource
D. nonrenewable resource
500
What tool measures wind energy?
A. anemometer
B. light meter
C. sound meter
D. thermometer
A. anemometer
500
Carly is sitting at the top of the slide. What type of energy does she have? Is it possible for her to change her energy? If she changes her energy, what type of energy will it become? Explain your answers.
She has potential energy because she is just sitting at the top of the slide. Potential energy is the energy of position. If she slides down, she can change her energy from potential to kinetic. Kinetic energy is the energy of motion.
500
What is shown in the picture below?
A. renewable resource
B. potential energy
C. fossil fuels
D. combustion
C. fossil fuels
500
Which picture is a renewable resource and which is nonrenewable?
Oil can only be used once therefore, it is nonrenewable. Solar energy is a renewable resource.