Vocabulary
Energy
Energy 2
Electrical
100

What is the ability to do work?

Energy

100

Name four natural resources electrical energy is produced from?

wind, sun, water, fossil fuel

100

Which material is used to cover electrical wires for safety because it is an insulator of electric energy?

Plastic and rubber

100
What kind of circuit allows electricity to pass through. Closed or open?
Closed circuit.
200

Materials that do not allow electricity to travel through them.

What is an insulator?


200

What forms of energy does an electric pencil sharpener have?

Electrical

200

What form of energy being produced fire?

thermal

200

What is an open circuit?

A circuit with a break in it. There would be no power to the device

300

What is a circuit?

Circular path that electricity flow.

300

What does the battery provide for a circuit?

energy

300

If Timmy is creating a circuit and tests an eraser in the circuit, will the lightbulb light up. Why or why not? 

No.  An eraser is an insulator 

300

True or False

A parallel circuit has one path.
400

Materials that allow electricity to pass through them.

What is a conductor

400

Which form of energy is used for drying clothes?

solar and electrical

400

The heat from the sun is an example of what form of energy?

solar

400

List the 3 things that a circuit HAS to have in order to work. 

1. Battery or power source

2. Wires

3. load  EX: lightbulb

500

What is electrical energy?

A form of energy that can be carried by wire and is used for heating and lighting and to provide power for machines.

500

A student recorded the amount of time it took for all the water in a puddle on the sidewalk to evaporate. What kind of energy causes water to evaporate?

Thermal energy

500

Where does a solar panel get its energy from?

sun
500

All the devices that use a plug and socket are using what kind of energy?

Electrical

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