Energy Name Date Class

Types of Energy

1. What is Potential Energy?

____________________Saved Energy___________________________________________________

2. What is Mechanical Energy?

__________________KE + PE ________________________________________________________

3. What is Kinetic Energy?

_________________Movement Energy_________________________________________

4. Why do some objects have more Kinetic Energy?

____________ Because some objects move faster than over or are heavier
____________________________________________________________________________________

5. Decide if each statement is KE or PE

A. Running up to the park _____ B. Sitting on a stool______

C. A rollercoaster going up the tracks ____ D. walking in the hallway ___

6. What does conservation mean?

___________________To save
____________________________________________________________________________________

7. How do you create energy?

_____________________________Energy cannot be created
____________________________________________________________________________________

8. As an object falls, what happens to its gravitational energy?

a. Increases
b. Decreases
c. remains the same
d. more information is needed

9. Which of the following types of energy is potential energy? More than one answer is possible.
a. gravitational energy
b. kinetic energy
c. thermal energy
d. sound energy
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10. A cat is on the top branch of a tree. The tree is 15 meters high and the cat has a mass of 5 kg. How

much potential energy does the cat have? (Formula: PE = MGH)

11. Determine the kinetic energy of a 1000-kg roller coaster car that is moving with a speed of 20.0
m/s. (Formula: KE = .5 x M x V2)
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CER
Miguel claims that as a ball falls, it loses potential energy. Izzy claims that as a ball falls, it gains
kinetic energy. Can both students be correct? Describe the evidence which would support either
student.

MS-PS3-5. Construct, use, and present arguments to support the claim that
when the motion energy of an object changes, energy is transferred to or from
the object.

Level of Evidence of Understanding

Understanding

Demonstrating Student response provides clear evidence of using the

Expected dimensions* to make sense the specific phenomenon.
Understanding Student is able to:
· describe the evidence that supports either that as a
ball falls, it loses potential energy OR that as a ball falls, it
gains kinetic energy.

Progressing Student response provides partial evidence of using the

Toward dimensions* to make sense the specific phenomenon. The
Understanding response lacks some critical information and details or
contains some errors. Student is able to:
· describe the evidence that supports either that as a
ball falls, it loses potential energy OR that as a ball falls, it
gains kinetic energy BUT the description is partially correct
or is missing parts.

Not Showing Student does not respond or student response is

Understanding inaccurate, irrelevant, or contains insufficient evidence of
using the dimensions* to the specific phenomenon.

Scoring notes:
● Both students can be correct. Evidence of decreasing energy is the decreasing sound
the ball makes on impact [or the decreasing height at which it rebounds]. Evidence of
increasing kinetic energy is that a ball falling with greater force initially has a louder
sound when it hits something, like a floor.