Science Test Review

1. What is the difference between kinetic and potential energy?
2. What has more potential energy: a book on a shelf, or a book falling down?
3. What is energy?
4. If you throw a baseball, where does the ball's kinetic energy come from?
5. What kind of energy do we get from the sun?
6. What is mechanical energy?
7. What is chemical energy?
8. Where do we get electrical energy?
9. What is the difference between light from the sun and heat from a lightbulb?
10. In our experiment, why did the butter melt?
11. What is an conductor?
12. What is a better insulator, a person or a textbook?
13. What is the difference between convection and conduction?
14. What is a fossil fuel?
15. What is a renewable resource?
16. What is a nonrenewable resource?
17. What is conservation?
18. How can people use nonrenewable resources like wind, water, and solar energy?

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