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Work and Energy Practice

📝 Worksheet medium ⏱️ 18 minutes 8 problems
Work and Energy Practice
Grade 8 Science LearnCrux.com
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  • Fill in each blank carefully.
  • Circle or mark the best answer for each multiple-choice question.
  • Match each prompt to the best option before writing your answer.
  • Use the larger space to show your thinking on word problems.
1. Match the clue to the energy word: what a force causes through a distance during work
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2. Which situation best matches the scientific meaning of work?
3. Match the term to the meaning: kinetic energy
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4. Energy can move through a __ when students track where it enters, leaves, or changes.
5. Why is it helpful to identify the system before explaining energy changes?
6. Which example has kinetic energy at the center?
7. Stored energy related to position or arrangement is __ energy.
8. Why is holding a box still different from doing work on it in the scientific sense?
📋 Teacher Answer Key
1. motion
2. pushing a box and making it slide forward
3. energy of motion
4. system
5. It helps students trace where energy is moving and which parts of the situation should be included in the explanation
6. a skateboard rolling downhill
7. potential
8. A force is present, but there is no motion through a distance in the direction of that force

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