Electricity is the movement of ____________
BONUS: How many years have I been teaching at GMS?
What is electrons!
BONUS ANSWER: 2 years!
100
This is what will happen if you bring two North poles of a magnet together.
BONUS: What country were my parents born in?
What is they will REPEL!
BONUS ANSWER: South Korea
100
Name one similarity between electricity and magnetism
BONUS: What is my wife's job?
They both create magnetic fields,
They both have attraction and repulsion forces,
They both use metals
BONUS ANSWER: She is a teacher too
100
Name the two forms of energy that come out of the sun.
BONUS: What kind and how many pets do I have?
What is Thermal and Electromagnetic
BONUS ANSWER: 2 - Dog and a Cat
100
Name the 5 types of renewable energy
BONUS: What college did I graduate from?
What is biomass, solar, hydropower, wind, and geothermal
BONUS ANSWER: William and Mary
200
What do you call a material that DOES NOT conduct electricity?
What is insulator
200
This is what will happen if you bring a North pole of a magnet near a South pole of a magnet
What is they will attract
200
Name the parts of a simple electromagnet
What is a battery, nail, and wire
200
Name the energy transformation that happens when you rub your hands together
What is Mechanical to Thermal
200
What is hydroelectric power?
What is when moving water (usually through a dam) spins a turbine which spins a huge magnet and moves electrons (creates electricity).
300
What are the parts of a simple circuit?
What is light bulb, battery, wire
300
When you bring a compass close to a magnet, the needle moves because of the Earth's ___________________.
What is the MAGNETIC FIELD
300
What happens to the strength of an electromagnet if you increase the number of coils around the iron core of the nail?
What is the strength INCREASES
300
Name the energy transformation that happens in a light bulb
What is electricity to electromagnetic (and thermal)
300
Which alternative energies are considered "clean" because they do not pollute the air?
What are geothermal, wind, solar, and hydropower
400
Name 3 objects that CONDUCT electricity
What is silver, aluminum, copper, steel, metals
400
How do you know that the Earth is a magnet
What is you can use a compass to point you North. You can see Northern Lights in polar areas. The Earth's magnetosphere protects us from solar storms.
400
What happens to the strength of an electromagnet if you add battery power (increase the voltage) of the electromagnet.
What is it will get STRONGER
400
What kind of energy transformation is taking place in a nuclear power plant
Double Jeopardy: What makes nuclear energy?
What is nuclear to electrical
Double Jeopardy: When the nucleus of an atom splits apart
400
What kind of energy transformation is taking place in a wind turbine that is using wind energy?
What is mechanical to electrical
500
Name 3 materials that INSULATE or block electricity
What is plastic, glass, cardboard, foam, rubber
500
What is a temporary magnet?
What is when one magnet induces magnetism in another piece of metal. (paperclip rubbing against a magnet)
500
Describe what an electromagnet is and how it works
What is a piece of metal that is turned into a temporary magnet when an electric current is passed through it
500
Name the energy transformation that occurs in a car (inlclude at least 3 forms of energy)
What is chemical (gasoline) to thermal (in the engine) to electrical to mechanical (when the car moves) to sound
500
Name 1 advantage and 1 disadvantage to using windpower
What is windpower does not pollute and it will never run out. The disadvantages are it does not look pretty in the landscape and can kill birds. Also it cannot be used anywhere (you need a windy spot)