What Is Energy? — Questions and answers
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What did Layla ask Coach Rivera about Nadia's cartwheel?
Choices
- A) How long Nadia had been practicing.
- B) Where Nadia got her gymnastics outfit.
- C) How Nadia gets so much power for her flip. ✓
- D) If Nadia enjoyed gymnastics.
Answer: C) How Nadia gets so much power for her flip.
From page 1
What did Yuto compare 'force' to, when he overheard Layla and Coach Rivera?
Choices
- A) Layla doing a cartwheel.
- B) Kicking a soccer ball. ✓
- C) Coach Rivera chuckling.
- D) Stretching nearby.
Answer: B) Kicking a soccer ball.
From page 2
What else did Sir Isaac Newton develop, besides his work on motion?
Choices
- A) New types of musical instruments.
- B) Advanced telescopes.
- C) Calculus. ✓
- D) Computer programs.
Answer: C) Calculus.
From page 4
What did Newton see fall from a tree while he was sitting in his garden?
Choices
- A) A bird.
- B) A branch.
- C) An apple. ✓
- D) A leaf.
Answer: C) An apple.
From page 5
What did Newton call the force that pulls things down and keeps the Moon in orbit?
Choices
- A) Inertia.
- B) Energy.
- C) Gravity. ✓
- D) Motion.
Answer: C) Gravity.
From page 6
What did Coach Rivera say Nadia uses her energy for when she does a flip?
Choices
- A) To sit very still.
- B) To push off the ground and rotate in the air. ✓
- C) To watch other gymnasts practice.
- D) To read a book upside down.
Answer: B) To push off the ground and rotate in the air.
From page 8
What example did Yuto give that takes energy because the water pushes back?
Choices
- A) Running quickly.
- B) A leaf falling from a tree.
- C) Swimming through the water. ✓
- D) Kicking a soccer ball.
Answer: C) Swimming through the water.
From page 9
What did Layla write in her notebook as 'Discovery #1'?
Choices
- A) Light is made of energy.
- B) Energy is what makes things move or stop. ✓
- C) Nadia's question about light.
- D) The definition of gravity.
Answer: B) Energy is what makes things move or stop.
From page 10