Vocabulary
Static Electricity
Current Electricity
From Power Plant to House
Electricity and Magnetism
100
The path that electricity can move through.
What is a circuit?
100
These are the two types of charges of particles in an atom.
What is positive and negative charges?
100
A type of circuit where all the bulbs are on the same circuit.
What is a series circuit?
100
A device that produces alternating current.
What is a generator?
100
The north and south parts of a magnet.
What is the poles?
200
The electricity that flows through a circuit.
What is current electricity?
200
The buildup of electrical charge on a material.
What is static electricity?
200
A type of circuit where each bulb is on a separate circuit.
What is a parallel circuit?
200
A generator changes these types of energy?
What is mechanical energy to electrical energy?
200
This is created when current flows through an iron bar.
What is an electromagnet?
300
Discharge of static electricity from a huge cloud.
What is lightning?
300
A material that electricity can flow easily through.
What is a conductor?
300
This produces negative charges that create current in a cell.
What is chemical reactions?
300
This device can increase or decrease voltage.
What is a transformer?
300
A region of magnetic force around the Earth.
What is a magnetic field?
400
A device that changes electrical energy into mechanical energy.
What is an electric motor?
400
Movement of charge due to static electricity.
What is discharge?
400
The difference between an open and short circuit.
What is an open circuit does not have electricity flowing in it, and a short circuit has too much electricity?
400
Current needs to travel through a transformer right before it goes to your house because
What is to decrease the voltage because high voltage is dangerous?
400
This makes a metal magnetic.
What is the particles line up pole to pole?
500
This allows electrical energy to be changed into other forms of energy.
What is a resistor?
500
A lightning rod protects you from lightning by doing this.
What is a good conductor and safely discharges the lightning?
500
A switch that protects circuits from dangerously high current.
What is a circuit breaker?
500
These are the steps current goes through, starting from a power plant and ended at your house.
What is a power plant, transformer, transmission wires, transformer, small transformer, your house?
500
Types of material that are magnetic.
What is iron, nickel, or cobalt?
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