ASPECt
Energy: Forms, Transformation, Transfer, and Conservation
Item EG006006: When a person is riding a bike, the person has more motion energy than the bike because the person weighs more than the bike.
A man is riding his bike. The man weighs 150 pounds and the bike weighs 25 pounds.
Does the bike or the man have more kinetic energy (motion energy) and why?
- The bike has more kinetic energy than the man because the man is giving the bike his energy.
- The man has more kinetic energy than the bike because the man is alive but the bike is not.
- The man has more kinetic energy than the bike because the man weighs more than the bike.
- The bike and the man have the same amount of kinetic energy because they are traveling at the same speed.
Answer Choice |
Overall |
Grades |
Gender |
Primary Language |
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| n = 1439 |
4–5 n = 310 | 6–8 n = 575 |
9–12 n = 554 |
Male n = 677 |
Female n = 732 |
English n = 1234 |
Other n = 167 |
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| A. | 35% | 45% | 37% | 28% | 35% | 35% | 36% | 28% |
| B. | 13% | 19% | 13% | 9% | 12% | 13% | 12% | 17% |
| C. | 23% | 15% | 21% | 29% | 25% | 20% | 22% | 26% |
| D. | 30% | 21% | 30% | 34% | 27% | 33% | 29% | 30% |