Static Electricity
This process is known as the build-up and discharge of charged particles
What is static electricity?
The continuous flow of electrons through a conductor is known as this.
What is electrical current?
An unintended pathway for electricity, often dangerous, is known as this.
What is a short circuit?
These cells cannot be recharged because their chemical reactions cannot be reversed.
What is a primary cell?
This law states how charges interact with each other.
What is the law of charges (like repel, opposite attract)
This measures how much electrical energy each charged particle carries.
What is voltage?
A person in a car touching a downed power line should exit the car using this method to avoid creating a path to the ground.
What is jumping out (not stepping out)?
This part of a cell is a liquid or paste that forms ions and conducts electricity.
What is an electrolyte?
This happens when built-up static charge suddenly jumps to another object, producing a spark.
What is Electrical Discharge?
Amperes
These devices melt or flip off when too much current flows, preventing overheating or fires.
What is a fuse
These are single units that convert chemical energy into electrical energy.
What is a cell?
This device uses a moving rubber belt to build up large amounts of static (via friction) charge on a metal sphere.
What is a Van de Graaff generator?
Voltage is measured in these units
What is volts or milivolts ?
Three-prong plugs include this third connection to prevent dangerous short circuits.
What is a ground wire?
This type of cell contains a liquid electrolyte where electrons move from a negatively charged electrode to a positively charged electrode.
What is a wet cell?
A balloon sticks to a wall after being rubbed on hair because the balloon becomes negatively charged and causes this effect inside the neutral wall.
What is charge separation?
A basic circuit must include a power source, a conductor, a load, and this device that controls the flow of electricity.
What is a switch?
Buildings have these as a method of protection for lightning to safely reach the ground.
What is a lightning rod?
This process uses electrical current to coat an object with a thin layer of metal like gold or silver.
What is electroplating?