Identify energy stores in everyday situations
6th grade (Year 7 in England) · 16 questions · Common Core: NGSS.MS-PS3-1, NGSS.MS-PS3-2 · England: KS3 Physics: Energy, GCSE Combined Science: Energy
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Question 1
Which energy store is the main one here: wind turning a turbine?
- A. gravitational potential store
- B. thermal store
- C. kinetic store
- D. elastic potential store
Question 2
Energy stores: which statement is NOT true?
- A. A faster object has more energy in its kinetic store.
- B. Energy is used up when a battery goes flat.
- C. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred between stores.
- D. Food contains energy in a chemical store.
Question 3
An electric car's battery runs down as it drives up a hill. Which stores gain energy?
- A. the car's gravitational potential store and the thermal store of the surroundings
- B. the car's nuclear store
- C. no store gains energy
- D. only the battery's chemical store
Question 4
Which energy store is the main one here: a book on a high shelf?
- A. thermal store
- B. nuclear store
- C. kinetic store
- D. gravitational potential store
Question 5
Energy stores: which statement is NOT true?
- A. Food contains energy in a chemical store.
- B. A faster object has more energy in its kinetic store.
- C. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred between stores.
- D. Light and sound are energy stores.
Question 6
An electric car's battery runs down as it drives up a hill. Which stores gain energy?
- A. only the battery's chemical store
- B. the car's nuclear store
- C. no store gains energy
- D. the car's gravitational potential store and the thermal store of the surroundings
Question 7
Which energy store is the main one here: a cyclist racing downhill?
- A. thermal store
- B. nuclear store
- C. elastic potential store
- D. kinetic store
Question 8
Energy stores: which statement is NOT true?
- A. Light and sound are energy stores.
- B. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred between stores.
- C. A faster object has more energy in its kinetic store.
- D. Energy is measured in joules (J).
Question 9
An electric car's battery runs down as it drives up a hill. Which stores gain energy?
- A. the car's nuclear store
- B. only the battery's chemical store
- C. the car's gravitational potential store and the thermal store of the surroundings
- D. no store gains energy
Question 10
Which energy store is the main one here: uranium fuel in a power station?
- A. elastic potential store
- B. thermal store
- C. nuclear store
- D. gravitational potential store
Question 11
Energy stores: which statement is NOT true?
- A. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred between stores.
- B. Light and sound are energy stores.
- C. Energy is measured in joules (J).
- D. A faster object has more energy in its kinetic store.
Question 12
An electric car's battery runs down as it drives up a hill. Which stores gain energy?
- A. no store gains energy
- B. the car's nuclear store
- C. only the battery's chemical store
- D. the car's gravitational potential store and the thermal store of the surroundings
Question 13
Which energy store is the main one here: a rolling bowling ball?
- A. nuclear store
- B. kinetic store
- C. gravitational potential store
- D. thermal store
Question 14
Energy stores: which statement is NOT true?
- A. A stationary book on a high shelf has no energy.
- B. Energy is measured in joules (J).
- C. A faster object has more energy in its kinetic store.
- D. Food contains energy in a chemical store.
Question 15
A ball is thrown straight up. As it rises and slows down, which store increases?
- A. nuclear
- B. gravitational potential
- C. chemical
- D. kinetic
Question 16
Which energy store is the main one here: water held behind a dam high in the hills?
- A. chemical store
- B. thermal store
- C. gravitational potential store
- D. elastic potential store
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