Event Rules
Key Vocabulary
Core Concepts
Application and
Reasoning
100

The time given in Circuit Lab is...

What is 50 minutes?

100

The energy source called electricity is defined as...

What is the force that powers appliances and is used in daily life?

100

Voltage is produced by...

What is converting various forms of energy—chemical, mechanical, light, or heat—into electrical potential energy?

100

The type of electricity produced by a DC Motor is...

What is Direct Current?

200

The amount of notes allowed in the competition is...

What is, "however much you want?"

200

The abbreviation of Kirchhoff's Voltage Law...

What is KVL?

200

Voltage is...

What is the pressure that pushes electrical charges?

200

Types of electrical current used by electric cars...

What is Direct Current and Alternating Current?

300

The type of protection that should be equipped includes…

What are closed-toed shoes, secure long hair or loose clothing, and use safety goggles if the event supervisor says to?

300

The capacitance is...

What is the amount of energy a capacitor can store?

300

Resistors are defined as…

What is a device having a designed resistance to the passage of an electric current?

300

When you use a ruler to rub dry hair, some hairs stand up because...

What is, "containing electrical charges?"

400

The written part of the test is worth…

What is 50-75% of each team's score?

400

Magnetism is defined as…

What is an invisible physical force produced by the motion of electric charges that causes materials to attract or repel each other?

400

Ohm’s Law is defined as…

What is the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance in an electrical circuit? 

400

Adding a resistor to a circuit can be useful because…

What is controlling the electrical current flow for sensitive components?

500

All Answers in the test must be answered in…

What are metric units?

500

This quantity remains constant in a series circuit but is divided among branches in a parallel circuit.

What is current?

500

Coulomb's law states that...

What is calculating how strong the repulsion or attraction is between two particles that are charged?

500

A circuit needs these materials...

What is, a power source, a load (device using energy), and conductors (paths for current)?

M
e
n
u