Battery Basics
This is the part of a battery where electricity flows out.
What is the positive terminal?
Most AA batteries have this many volts.
What is 1.5 volts?
This is the most common household battery size
What is AA?
Who is Alessandro Volta?
You should never throw batteries into this because they can explode.
What is fire?
This is the flow of electric charge through a wire.
What is electricity?
If you connect two batteries end to end, this happens to the voltage.
What is it increases (adds together)?
These batteries can be used again after charging.
What is rechargeable batteries?
The unit "volt" is named after this person.
Who is Volta?
This happens if you put batteries in backwards in a device
What is it won't work?
This tells you how much "push" a battery gives to move electricity.
What is voltage?
This device uses batteries to give light.
What is a flashlight?
This type of battery is often used in cars.
What is a lead-acid battery?
Early batteries were made using metals like copper and this other metal.
What is zinc?
This kind of energy is safe and commonly used in homes.
What is electrical energy?
This is what batteries store that gets turned into electricity.
What is chemical energy?
Higher voltage usually means this happens to a bulb.
What is it gets brighter?
This small round battery is often used in watches.
What is a button cell battery?
This early battery design stacked metal discs like a pile.
What is voltaic pile?
Batteries should be recycled instead of thrown in this.
What is the trash?
This part inside a battery helps move charged particles between ends.
What is an electrolyte?
This unit is used to measure voltage.
What is volt?
Phones and laptops commonly use this type of battery.
What is lithium-ion?
Before batteries, people used this natural force for electricity experiments.
What is static electricity?
This happens if a battery leaks chemicals.
What is it can damage devices or be harmful?