7th Grade Science – Energy Review Worksheet

Complete  the  following  worksheet  on  a  separate  sheet  of  paper.  Use  your  notes  and  
Chapters  4  and  24  in  your  textbook  to  help  you.  When  you  finish,  please  staple  your  
answers  to  the  back  of  this  page.  If  you  do  not  finish  this  worksheet  in  class,  it  is  
HOMEWORK.  ALL  questions  should  be  complete  by  Friday  

1. What is energy?
2. What are the different forms of energy?
3. Compare kinetic and potential energy.
4. What causes kinetic energy to increase?
5. What causes potential energy to increase?
6. What is the law of conservation of energy?
7. What is the difference between an energy transformation and an energy transfer?
Give an example of each.
8. What does temperature actually measure?
9. Describe the movement and arrangement of particles in solids, liquids, and gases.
10. What happens to the particles in a substance as the temperature rises?
11. How does heat flow?
12. Explain why your hand gets cold when you hold ice.
13. Explain why your hand gets hot when you hold a cup of hot chocolate.
14. What is thermal equilibrium?
15. Identify the energy transformations that take place in the following examples:
a. Driving a car
b. Burning wood
c. Turning on a television
d. Eating breakfast before school
16. Where does most of the energy on Earth come from?
17. Trace the energy you got from your breakfast back to the Sun.
18. Trace the electrical energy in our homes back to the Sun.
19. What are fossil fuels?
20. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using fossil fuels for energy?
21. What are some of the alternatives to fossil fuels?
22. What are renewable and nonrenewable resources? What are some examples of
each?
23. What is an inexhaustible resource? What are some examples?
24. How do radiation and conduction differ?
25. Explain what causes convection currents.
26. Give an example of conduction, convection, and radiation.
27. Describe the following processes in the water cycle: (please use your textbook)
a. Precipitation
b. Condensation
c. Evaporation
d. Runoff