Answer:
B. The kinetic energy of the ball change into potential energy as the ball rises.
Step-by-step explanation:
This can seem a little bit confusing at first, but once you understand Kinetic Energy, you'll get it right away. Kinetic Energy is energy an object has when it is moving. So for example, you have kinetic energy when you run, a pen has kinetic energy when you drop it in class, and the ball has kinetic energy as it rises.
However, because of outside forces, objects with kinetic energy will eventually lose it. These forces can be anything from friction as an object slides across a surface, to the negative acceleration due to gravity.
In this question, the force working against the motion of the ball is gravity. As you know, when you throw something up, it has to come down, because of gravity. As the ball goes up, it has enough kinetic energy that it continues its upward motion, however it slowly looses that energy, causing it to slow to a stop before falling back to the ground.
On the way up, the energy of the ball changes from this kinetic (moving energy) to what we call potential energy. Potential energy is exactly what is sounds like, it is the potential for something to begin moving. So, as the ball goes higher, it has a lower chance of continuing to go up (meaning it's loosing it's kinetic energy) and higher chance of falling back down (meaning it's gaining potential energy).
Hope this helps.