Vocabulary
Parts of a Circuit
Circuits
Insulators and Conductors
100
A flow of electric charges
What is electricity?
100
This connects each part of the circuit
What is wire?
100
In this type of circuit, energy flow along one path.
What is series?
100
This material allows energy to flow through.
What is conductor?
200
The path the electricity follows
What is a circuit?
200
The light bulb is a ___________.
What is resistor?
200
In this type of circuit, energy may travel among multiple paths.
What is parallel?
200
This material blocks energy from flowing through.
What is insulator?
300
Something that uses the electricity in a circuit
What is a resistor?
300
The switch is made out of __________.
What is metal?
300
In a series circuit, if one light bulb is removed this happens.
What is the circuit becomes open and the other light bulb will not light up.
300
Most conductors are made out of __________.
What is metals?
400
This is responsible for opening and closing a circuit.
What is a switch?
400
Give an example of a resistor (cannot be a light bulb)
What is (answer may vary-speaker, motor, T.V., radio, etc.)?
400
This term means the circuit is complete.
What is closed circuit.
400
Give four examples of insulators.
What is rubber, wood, plastic, and glass?
500
The power source for the circuits we created in class.
What is battery/cell?
500
In a circuit the energy starts on the _________ side of the battery.
What is negative?
500
In a circuit with two batteries, the batteries must be facing in ____________.
What is the same direction?
500
Name a type of insulator that saves our lives on a daily basis.
What is rubber?
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