Energy
Circuits
Types of Energy
Vocabulary
Magnets
100

when positive or negative charges are unbalanced

What is static electricity?

100

When a circuit is not complete and no electricity flows through it.

What is an open circuit?

100

A fan transforms electrical energy to this.

What is mechanical energy?

100
When energy goes from one object to another.

What is transfer?

100

Another name for a dry cell.

What is a battery?

200

He used a key to prove lightning held electricity.

Who is Benjamin Franklin?

200

A complete, working circuit.

What is a closed circuit?

200

Heat energy is also called this type of energy.

What is thermal energy?

200

What are conductors made from?

metal


200

Every magnet has two of these, north and south.

What are poles?

300

When the clouds have a high negative charge and the ground as a high positive charge, this can occur.

What is lightning?

300
The materials needed to make a simple circuit.

What are dry cell, wires and bulb?

300

Give an example of thermal energy.

What is anything that uses heat?

300

Name at least 2 things that are insulators.

rubber, glass, wood, plastic, fabric

300

This is a current carrying wire wrapped around an iron core to create a magnetic field.

What is electromagnet

400

This kind of energy comes out of an outlet.

What is an electricity?

400

When your lights are on it's this circuit.

What is a closed circuit?

400

Give an example of something that uses mechanical energy.

What is anything that has motion?
400

An electrician wear rubber gloves and rubber boot soles to.

What is to protect from the electrical current?

400

When the same poles of a magnet push away from each other.

What is repel?

500

This is the flow of electricity.

What is an electrical current?

500

When your lights are off it's this circuit.

What is an open circuit?

500

The sun is this kind of energy.

What is radiant?

500

When energy changes from one form to another.

What is transform?

500

When the opposite poles of a magnet come together.

What is attract?

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