Vocabulary 1
What is electricity?
A form of energy produced by moving electrons
What is an Electric Current?
Flow of charges/electrons
More Electrons than protons = what type of charge?
Negative Charge
Finish the sentence.
Opposite charges _______ and like charges ________.
Opposite charges attract
Like Charges repel
A magnet made by coiling a wire around a piece of iron and running electricity through it is called?
Electromagnet
The build up of charges on an object is called....
Static Electricity
More Protons than electrons = what type of charge?
Positive Charge
What is used to start and stop the flow of electric current in a circuit?
Switch
What is electricity that flows along a path?
Current Electricity
What is Static Discharge?
Electrons moving to balance the charges
Shock that you see/hear
What are two things needed for a current to flow?
1. A source of current (electrons)
2. Circuit Needs to be complete
Draw and label an atom (charges need to be on it)
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What is a insulator?
A material that conducts electricity poorly
What is an Conductor?
What would a circuit design look like? ( Draw one for the experiment that you did)
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What does a break in a circuit mean?
Something is not connected, wires, lightbulb, or battery
A electric circuit in which the current has only one path to follow
What is a circuit that has more than one path for a current to follow?
Parallel Circuit
What part of the atom can move from one atom to another?
Electrons
When a microwave oven's timer beeps, what kind of energy is electricity being changed into?
Sound