Energy stores and transfers Quiz
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1. Which store holds the energy in a stretched spring?
- A. Kinetic
- B. Elastic
- C. Thermal
- D. Chemical
2. A girl throws a ball upwards. As it rises, energy is transferred from which store to which?
- A. Gravitational potential to kinetic
- B. Chemical to thermal
- C. Kinetic to gravitational potential
- D. Elastic to kinetic
3. How is energy transferred from the Sun to the Earth?
- A. By mechanical work
- B. By electrical work
- C. By radiation
- D. By heating through the air
4. Which of these is an energy transfer, not a store?
- A. Chemical
- B. Heating
- C. Kinetic
- D. Nuclear
5. What do the widths of the arrows on a Sankey diagram show?
- A. The amount of energy in each part of the flow
- B. The time the energy takes
- C. The temperature of the device
- D. The age of the device