Energy Transformations Answers

Taro stated that when someone hits a golf ball with a club, the amount of energy the ball has changes, the amount of energy that the club has changes, and the total energy of the system that includes the ball and the club increases. Which best explains Taro’s error?

Alana summarized what happens when a ball sitting on top of a grassy hill rolls down the hill.The motionless ball has potential energy. Once the ball starts to roll down the hill, new kinetic energy is made. As the ball rolls across the grass, it slows down. The kinetic energy of the ball is converted to other forms of energy.

Energy can be transformed from one form to another. The diagram shows one such process.

Plants are responsible for a very important energy transformation, as shown.

The diagram shows a swinging pendulum.

The human body stores chemical energy from digested food. Some of the chemical energy is converted into mechanical energy when the body moves. Which statement is best supported by this information?

Which activity directly converts energy from the Sun into chemical energy?

What happens in terms of energy when a moving car hits a parked car, causing the parked car to move?

The image shows a dam.

Wood has chemical energy, which can be used to generate thermal and radiant energy when burned in a fireplace. Which best explains what happens to the total amount of energy in this scenario?