This is the word we use to describe something being PULLED TOWARD a magnet.
What is attraction?
These gray flecks are attracted to magnets.
What are iron filings?
This is another word for the "ends" of a magnet.
What is pole?
A wire attached to a battery will cause the needle of a compass to move because of this.
What is electromagnetism?
What is making these circular magnets look like they are floating?
What are opposite poles?
This is the word we use to describe the force of something being PUSHED AWAY from a magnet.
What is repel?
The iron filings around the magnet below show this:
What are magnetic fields?
What are north and south?
You can use a battery, wire, and an iron nail to make this.
What is an electromagnet?
This will happen when you drop a magnet with a lot of force.
What is lose magnetism?
They are the only metals attracted to magnets.
What are iron and steel?
Magnetic fields are strongest here.
What are the poles?
This will happen when you put opposite poles together.
What is attract?
The more you loop this around an iron nail, the greater the magnetic force will be.
What is a wire?
When you stroke an iron nail in the same direction on a magnet, you get this.
What is a temporary magnet?
Aluminum nails, copper pennies, plastic foam, and wooden cubes are this.
What is non-magnetic?
The arrows on the diagram below show this:
What are magnetic fields or magnetic force?
This will happen when you put the south pole of a magnet next to the south pole of a magnet.
What is repel?
When electricity lines up the electrons in something made of iron, you get this.
What is an electromagnet?
Earth's iron core makes it this.
What is a magnet?
What is Magnet B?
Where opposite poles attract is where this is strongest.
What is the magnetic field?
The arrow of a compass will point north because the Earth is a giant one of these:
What is a magnet?
This is why a crane can lift a giant steel car in a junk yard.
What is an electromagnet?
These are lined up in a temporary magnet.
What are domains?