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Energy stores and transfers

4th grade (Year 5 in England) · 16 questions · Common Core: NGSS.4-PS3-1, NGSS.4-PS3-2 · England: KS3 Physics: Energy (energy changes and transfers), KS4 Combined Science: Energy

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Question 1
Which of these mainly has a chemical energy store?
- A. a piece of coal
- B. a cup of hot tea
- C. a drawn bow
- D. a child at the top of a slide
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Question 2
Which energy store is most important here: a child at the top of a slide?
- A. elastic potential (stretch or squash)
- B. thermal (heat)
- C. gravitational potential (height)
- D. chemical
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Question 3
A ball is dropped. Which energy store decreases as it falls?
- A. gravitational potential
- B. elastic
- C. kinetic
- D. nuclear
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Question 4
Which of these mainly has a elastic potential (stretch or squash) energy store?
- A. a drawn bow
- B. a cup of hot tea
- C. a child at the top of a slide
- D. a running dog
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Question 5
Which energy store is most important here: a drawn bow?
- A. elastic potential (stretch or squash)
- B. chemical
- C. thermal (heat)
- D. kinetic (movement)
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Question 6
A ball is dropped. Which energy store decreases as it falls?
- A. kinetic
- B. gravitational potential
- C. nuclear
- D. elastic
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Question 7
Which of these mainly has a thermal (heat) energy store?
- A. a stretched rubber band
- B. a stretched trampoline
- C. a hot radiator
- D. a book on a high shelf
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Question 8
Which energy store is most important here: a piece of coal?
- A. thermal (heat)
- B. elastic potential (stretch or squash)
- C. gravitational potential (height)
- D. chemical
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Question 9
Which are ways energy can be transferred?
- A. energy cannot move
- B. only by fire
- C. only by wires
- D. by heating, by electric current, by light and sound, by forces
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Question 10
Which of these mainly has a gravitational potential (height) energy store?
- A. lava from a volcano
- B. a stretched rubber band
- C. a book on a high shelf
- D. a sandwich
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Question 11
Which energy store is most important here: a running dog?
- A. kinetic (movement)
- B. chemical
- C. thermal (heat)
- D. elastic potential (stretch or squash)
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Question 12
Which are ways energy can be transferred?
- A. energy cannot move
- B. only by wires
- C. by heating, by electric current, by light and sound, by forces
- D. only by fire
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Question 13
Which of these mainly has a gravitational potential (height) energy store?
- A. a sandwich
- B. a cup of hot tea
- C. a squashed spring
- D. water behind a high dam
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Question 14
Which energy store is most important here: a child at the top of a slide?
- A. gravitational potential (height)
- B. kinetic (movement)
- C. thermal (heat)
- D. chemical
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Question 15
A ball is dropped. Which energy store decreases as it falls?
- A. elastic
- B. kinetic
- C. nuclear
- D. gravitational potential
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Question 16
Which of these mainly has a gravitational potential (height) energy store?
- A. a stretched rubber band
- B. a squashed spring
- C. water behind a high dam
- D. a piece of coal

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