Electricity & Current
Circuits
Static Electricity
Magnetism
Historical Contributors
100
Electricity is created when __________ jump from one atom to another atom.
What is electrons?
100
A circuit that has a break and no current.
What is an open circuit?
100
rubbing two objects together creates _________ electricity.
What is static?
100
A magnet would not be attracted to ________. (conductors or insulators)
What is insulators?
100
conducted a famous experiment where he flew a kite in a storm.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
200
A continuous flow of electrons.
What is electric current?
200
A circuit that has only one pathway for electricity to flow.
What is a series circuit?
200
Static electricity is created by ______. (it is a type of force)
What is friction?
200
If the north pole of a magnet were close to the south pole of another magnet, the magnets would ________ each other.
What is attract?
200
Thomas Edison invented the _______ that lights our houses today.
What is light bulb?
300
A material that does not allow electricity to flow through it. An example would be a rubber eraser.
What is an insulator?
300
A circuit that allows the movement of electrical energy.
What is a closed circuit?
300
When two balloons are rubbed with cloths and then held by a string close to each other, the balloons will repel each other, why?
because similar charges repel.
300
A temporary magnet that is created by an electric current with the wire wrapped around a nail.
What is an electromagnet?
300
Benjamin Franklin experimented with a kite to determine that ____________ is electricity.
What is lightning?
400
A material that allows electricity to flow through it. An example would be a nail.
What is a conductor?
400
A circuit that has more than one pathway for electricity to flow.
What is a parallel circuit?
400
Lightning is ___________ from the atmosphere as a result of static electricity.
What is discharge?
400
The area on the magnet that the magnetic field is the greatest.
What is poles?
400
The inventor of the light bulb and the first power plant?
Who is Thomas Edison?
500
Electricity can be stored in a ____________.
What is a dry cell battery?
500
If a bulb was removed from this type of circuit, the other bulbs in the circuit would glow brighter.
What is a parallel circuit?
500
Discharge is often in the form of a _______ when you rub your feet across the ground and then touch something.
What is a spark?
500
If two magnet's north poles were placed beside each other, they would _________ each other.
What is repel?
500
This contributor determined that electricity can be made by moving a magnet in a coiled wire.
Who is Michael Faraday?
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