Electricity
Magnetism
Electronics
Circuits
Free For All
100
Produced by rubbing 2 objects together
What is static electricity?
100

any material that has the ability to attract iron

What is a magnet?

100
2 examples of electronic devices
What are TV and cell phone?
100

Type of circuit in which electrons CANNOT travel

What is open circuit?

100
A liquid or paste substance that conducts electricity
What is an electrolyte?
200
Flow of electrons around a circuit
What is current electricity?
200
Core of wire with a core attached to an electrical source
What is an electromagnet?
200
The brain of the computer
What is CPU?
200

The unit of measurement for the amount of electrical push, or force, in a circuit

What is volt?

200
Unit used to measure how much current flows through a given part of a circuit in one second
What is an ampere?
300
3 examples of insulators
What are glass, wood, and plastic?
300
Scientist who discovered that adding a metal core to a coil of wire increases the magnetism
Who is William Sturgeon?
300
How electronic and electrical devices differ
What is only an electronic device can communicate information?
300
In this circuit, if a bulb burns out, another bulb could stay lit.
What is a parallel circuit?
300
A battery contains one or more of these
What is an electric cell?
400
How a resistor functions
What is reduce the flow of electrons leading to friction?
400
2 scientists who discovered that moving a magnet around or through a loop of wire produces electricity in the wire
Who are Joseph Henry and Michael Faraday?
400
Type of electric current that a TV uses to broadcast programs
What is an electrical signal?
400
A very small circuit with all of its parts built into it
What is an integrated circuit?
400
What Benjamin Franklin used in his first experiments with electricity
What is a kite?
500
Why metals are good conductors
What is that they loosely hold their electrons?
500
How a generator works
What is convert motion into electrical energy?
500
Stores facts temporarily in a computer
What is RAM?
500
Key ingredient in a microchip
What is silicon?
500

Magnetic force is strongest at the __________ of a magnet.

What are poles.

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