Circuits
Magnets
Electricity
Insulators & Conductors
Vocabulary
100

A circuit must be open or closed in order for current to flow?

closed

100

Like poles of a magnet .. attract or repel?

repel

100

Materials that allow electric charges to flow through them easily. 

Conductors

100

Materials that allow electricity to pass through them easily.

Conductors

100

This circuit has only one pathway for electric current to follow

Series circuit

200

Explain how a fuse helps protect against a fire that could be caused by overheated wires.

A fuse opens or breaks the circuit so electricity stops.

200

Opposite poles of a magnet .. attract or repel?

attract

200

Which uses more electricity... a refrigerator or a washing machine?

Refrigerator

200

Materials that do not allow electricity to pass through them easily.

Insulators

200

This circuit has more than one pathway for electric current to follow.

Parallel circuit

300

Draw and label a series circuit using 3 wires, 1 battery, and 2 bulbs.

Check answers

300

The force of a magnet is greatest where?

At its poles 

300

A continuous flow of electric charges

electric current

300

True or false.... plastic is a conductor

False

300

Positive and negative units of electricity are called...

charges

400

Draw and label a parallel circuit using 4 wires, 1 battery, and 2 bulbs.

Check drawing

400
The north end of a magnet always points to which direction?

North

400
The pathway that electric current follows

Electric circuit

400

Give an example of a conductor

copper, aluminum, gold, silver

400

A safety device that opens a circuit when it overheats.

Fuse
500

Miss Titmus created a circuit with a battery and 2 bulbs. When both bulbs are connected to the circuit, they both light. When Miss Titmus removes one of the bulbs the other stays lit,

What kind of circuit did Miss Titmus create?

How do you know?

A parallel circuit because it has more than one path for electricity to flow. 

500

The space is which the force of a magnet can act

Magnetic field

500

A device that changes chemical energy into electrical energy. 

Electric cell

500

Give an example of an insulator

plastic, rubber, glass, air, and wood

500

A device that changes energy of motion into electrical energy

Generator

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