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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Jumping from a tree.
A
Kinetic Energy
B
Potential Energy
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -After you left the ground, your body’s potential energy continued to increase, and the kinetic energy decreased. Finally, you reached the peak of your jump, where all of the energy became potential energy. On the way down, that potential energy began to decrease and the kinetic energy began to increase.

Detailed explanation-2: -As you jump, you generate more kinetic and elastic energy, while exerting potential. This is why you can keep jumping higher despite not physically putting as much energy into it.

Detailed explanation-3: -When an apple falls from the tree to the ground, its energy of position (stored as gravitational potential energy) is converted to kinetic energy, the energy of motion, as it falls.

Detailed explanation-4: -As the leaves are falling, they have kinetic energy.

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