What is the possible or stored energy in an object called?
Potential Energy
Chemical Energy
Kinetic Energy
Thermal Energy
How does potential energy become kinetic energy?
When an outside force acts upon the object.
Potential and kinetic energy have no relation.
When something hot touches something cold.
When an object remains in place.
Which is an example of kinetic energy?
A parked car.
A vase sitting on a table.
Sound waves when an instrument is played.
A plate with hot food.
Which statement is NOT true about energy?
Energy constantly moves from one place to another.
Energy can neither be created nor destroyed.
Energy is not connected.
Energy can change forms.
What is heat?
Electromagnetic Energy
Thermal Energy
Temperature
Electricity
Your feet burning when you walk on a hot road during summer is an example of which form of heat transfer?
Conduction
It is not a form of heat transfer
Convection
Radiation
A road absorbing the heat from the sun and becoming too hot to walk on is an example of which form of heat transfer?
It is not a form of heat transfer
Radiation
Conduction
Convection
The warmth from a fireplace rises to heat the room, making the cold air fall, is an example of which form of heat transfer?
Radiation
Conduction
It is not a form of heat transfer
Convection
What happens when a beam of light hits an object?
The light passes through it.
It forms a shadow.
All of the light is absorbed.
The light is reflected.
A leaf is green. What does this tell you about the light that is being absorbed?
Light has nothing to do with colors.
The light is not part of the spectrum.
All colors are reflected except green.
All colors are absorbed except green.
What happens when light hits a shiny or smooth surface?
It is absorbed.
It is refracted.
It is reflected.
It disappears.
What is it called when light bends as it moves from one substance to another?
Refraction
Reflection
Incidence
Absorption
Light and sound both travel in what form?
Straight Lines
Strings
Currents
Waves
What role does energy play in sound?
Energy is present in loud sounds only.
Sound waves carry energy.
Energy is present in high-pitched sounds only.
Sound has nothing to do with energy.
What happens when sound waves bounce off of a surface?
They get louder.
The number of waves increase.
They get lower.
They form an echo.
What does volume measure?
The frequency of a sound
The highness of a sound
The loudness of a sound
The speed of a sound
