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Test Description: Energy, conductors, insulators, circuits

Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.

1) Which of these describes the energy of an object in motion?

Apotential energy Bheat energy Csound energy Dkinetic energy

2) A student is practicing archery. When he pulls back on the bowstring, what type of energy does the bowstring have just before the student releases the arrow?

Akinetic energy Bgravitational potential energy Celastic potential energy Dchemical potential energy

3) A student is constructing an electrical circuit. Which of these can provide energy for the circuit?

Abattery Blightbulb Cbuzzer Dwire

4) What energy conversion is illustrated by a rollar coaster beginning to roll down the hill?

Achemical potential energy to kinetic Bkinetic energy to gravitational potential energy Cgravitational potential to kinetic energy Delastic potential to kinetic energy

5) Which type of energy transfer is used by plants to make their food?

Achemical energy into radiant energy Bgravitational potential into elastic potential Cradiant energy into chemical potential energy Dradiant energy into kinetic energy

6) Which type of energy is stored in a piece of charcoal before it is burned?

Achemical potential energy Bradiant energy Ckinetic energy Delastic potential energy

7) Your TV uses energy. What happens when turn on your TV?

AEnergy is created. BEnergy is destroyed CEnergy changes forms. DEnergy is converted to matter.

8) Which of the following could be used as a good insulator?

Aglass Ba penny Ccopper wire Daluminum foil

9) Which is an example of chemical energy being converted to heat and light?

Aa candle burning Ba music player running on a battery Ca lightbulb glowing Da toaster browning a piece of bread

10) An engineer needs a material that will carry an electric current. Which type of material should he choose?

Awood Bmetal Cplastic Dwool

*select an answer for all questions

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