Chapter 2 Energy

Name : ______________________( ) Class : Jr 1____

1. Our bodies need a supply of energy to be active. How do we get our 5. A toy car needs a source of energy to move. How could you give
supply of energy? gravitational potential energy to a toy car so that it will move when
A. From our food you let it go?
B. By drinking water _______________________________________________________
C. By wearing warm clothes
D. Directly from sunlight 6. Imagine that you are jumping up and down on a trampoline.

2. Fuels are useful stores of energy. How do we get the energy from a
fuel?
A. By moving it
B. By storing it
C. By burning it
D. By eating it a. Name the store of energy when you are pressing downwards
on the stretchy skin of the trampoline.
3. What type of energy store is a fuel? _________________________________________________
A. Thermal
B. Chemical b. Name the store of energy when you are high up in the air.
C. Gravitational _________________________________________________
D. Elastic
7. A battery can be used in an electrical device such as a torch.
4. An elastic band can store energy.
a. Explain how the elastic band can be made to store energy?
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b. How can its energy be released? a. What type of energy store is a battery?
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 b. When the torch is switched on, energy is transferred from the
battery to the bulb. What type of energy is transferred to the
bulb?
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c. Which two types of energy are transferred from the bulb
when the torch is switched on?
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b. Explain why the temperature of the water decreased when
the cold water was added to the hot water.
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10. A piece of fruit is falling from a tree.

d. If the battery supplies 100 J of energy to make the torch

work. The torch produces 10 J of light energy, how much
thermal energy will it produce?
_________________________________________________ a. The list below contains the names of some different forms of
energy. Put a tick alongside four that are possessed by the
8. What energy change happens in a light bulb? falling fruit.
Chemical
_______________energy
Electrical Sound

9. Ella had a beaker of warm water. Its temperature was 70 °C. She Gravitational potential energy Elastic potential energy
poured in some cold water and
Thermal Sound
stirred the mixture. When she
measured the temperature of the
water, it had fallen to 40 °C. b. Which form of energy increases as the fruit falls?

a. Ella said, ‘A lot of energy in the hot water has disappeared.’ _________________________________________________

Explain why Ella’s statement is wrong.

_________________ c. Which forms of energy decreases as the fruit falls?
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 d. Which form of energy is stored in the body of a person as a
result of eating the fruit?
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d. What sort of energy does the power station generate?
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e. None of the energy transfer processes is perfect. In what
form is most of the wasted energy released?
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11. Diagram below represents a hydroelectric system for generating 12. The diagram shows a man diving into water.
electricity.

reservoir

Water Power station Water flows down

flows Which form of energy is increasing as he falls?
out
A. Chemical
B. Gravitational
Answer the following questions, using words from the list. C. Kinetic
chemical electrical gravitational thermal D. Elastic
kinetic light nuclear sound 13. What is the source of energy converted by a hydro-electric power
a. What sort of energy, possessed by the water in the reservoir, station?
is the main source of energy for this system? A. Hot rocks
_________________________________________________ B. Falling water
b. When the water flows down the pipe, it is moving. What sort C. Oil
of energy does it possess because of this movement? D. Waves
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c. The water makes the turbines in the power station rotate. horizontal needle N is clamped below O.
What sort of energy do the turbines possess because of this
rotation?
The pendulum bob is released from the point P. Which of the points marked
A, B, C or D would the bob swing to before swinging back? (Neglect
air resistance)