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Review and Reinforce
10.
What is Energy? 6th Grade
Lesson 1 Chapter 1 Use pages 8-13
Understanding Main Ideas
Answer the following questions in the spaces provided.
2. How is power related to energy?
1. How are work and energy related?
energy is measured in Joules thesang unit as work
3. What are the two basic kinds of energy?
4. A girl who weighs 30 kg is inline skating at a speed of 5 m/s. What is
the girl's kinetic energy?
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5. A hat that weighs 5 newtons is hanging from a hook 1.5 meters
above the floor. How much gravitational potential energy does the
hat have?
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7. A
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9. gravitational
potential energy
energy
kinetic energy
potential energy
Building Vocabulary
Match each term with its definition by writing the letter of the correct definition in the
right column on the line beside the term in the left column.
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elastic potential
energy
a. potential energy related to an object's height
b. the ability to do work or cause change
c. energy associated with objects that can be compressed or
stretched-
d. the energy an object has due to its motion
e. energy that results from an object's position or shape