Circuits
Electricity
Electromagnets
Electromagnet Design
Vocabulary
100

What has potential energy to run a circuit?

What is a battery?

100

What invisible force surrounds the electric current in circuit?

What is a small magnetic field?

100

What is a magnet that can be turned off and on?

What is an electromagnet?

100

What size wire will lift more paperclips in an electromagnet?

What is thicker?

100

What is the interaction of electric and magnetic fields?

What is electromagnetism?

200

What opens and closes to control the flow of electricity in a circuit?

What is a switch?

200

What is the force between two charged objects?

What is electric force?

200

What component of an electromagnet does not allow electricity to flow through it?

What is the rivet (core)?

200

How can an electromagnet energy source be strengthened? 

What is add more batteries?

200

What is a complete circuit through which energy flows?

What is a closed circuit?

300

What provides the pathway for energy to flow through a circuit?

What are the wires?

300

What are materials that are poor conductors of electricity?

What are semiconductors?

300

What type of material is the plastic coating on a wire?

What is an insulator?

300

How can the core be strengthened in an electromagnet?

What is add more coils?

300

What is a device that uses magnetic levitation?

What is a maglev?

400

What happens to a bulb when electricity is flowing through a circuit?

What is lights up?

400

What are materials that do not conduct electricity?

What are insulators?

400

What type of switch allows electricity to flow through an electromagnet?

What is closed?

400

What kind of force is transferred to the core of an electromagnet?

What is induced magnetism?

400

Who is a designer who tests ways to solve a problem?

Who is an engineer?

500

What happens to the conductors in a circuit when energy is flowing through it? 

What is heat up?

500

What are the subatomic particles with negative electric charges?

What are electrons?

500

What component of the electromagnet conducts electricity and creates a magnetic field around the core?

What is the wire coil?

500

How many variables should be tested when improving the design of an electromagnet?

What is one?

500

What is a device that produces motion from electricity?

What is a motor?

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