You throw a ball into a box and close the lid. you hear the ball bouncing around inside as the ball’s energy changes from gravitational potential energy to kinetic energy, to elastic potential energy, and so on. if you wait a minute or two, what will have happened to the ball’s energy?

Thermal energy.

Explanation:

We know that energy is conserved and it only transform one form to another form ,Like potential energy transform in to kinetic energy when a ball fall down from a height and obtain some velocity.

In this case energy changes from gravitational energy to kinetic energy then elastic energy and after some time this energy will convert in to thermal energy.

So the answer is thermal energy.

Correct choices are marked in bold:

travel in straight lines and can bounce off surfaces  --> TRUE, normally electromagnetic waves travel in straight lines, however they can be reflected by objects, bouncing off their surfaces

travel through space at the speed of light  --> TRUE, all electromagnetic waves in space (vacuum) travel at the speed of light, )

travel only through matter  --> FALSE; electromagnetic waves can also travel through vacuum

travel only through space  --> FALSE, electromagnetic waves can also travel through matter

can bend around objects  --> TRUE, this is what happens for instance when diffraction occurs: electromagnetic waves are bended around obstacles or small slits

move by particles bumping into each other  --> FALSE, electromagnetic waves are oscillations of electric and magnetic fields, so no particles are involved

move by the interaction between an electric field and a magnetic field --> TRUE, electromagnetic waves consist of an electric field and a magnetic field oscillating in a direction perpendicular to the direction of motion of the wave