Electric Charge
Vocabulary
Circuit I
Circuit II
Safety
100
A particle with a positive charge.
What is a Proton?
100
A material that opposes the flow of electric current.
What is an insulator?
100
Three of the four things needed to make a complete circuit.
What is a switch, a resistor, a conducting path, and an energy source?
100
When one section goes out, all sections stop working.
What is a series circuit?
100
When charges are able to flow directly to the earth.
What is grounded?
200
This particle has a negative charge.
What is an electron?
200
A unit of electric current used to measure the rate of flow.
What is an amp?
200
These materials allow current to flow through them easily.
What are conductors?
200
A circuit that has several paths for current to take.
What is a parallel circuit?
200
A metal rod mounted to the roof of a building to protect it during storms.
What is a lightning rod?
300
The particle that is responsible for making electric current.
What is the electron?
300
A unit of potential difference(similar to pressure).
What is a volt?
300
A circuit that that has only one path for current to flow through.
What is a series circuit?
300
This happens when resistors are added to a series circuit.
What is resistance increases or current decreases?
300
A safety device that uses an electromagnet to shut off a circuit with to much current.
What is a circuit breaker?
400
Two ways that charges transfer.
What is friction, conduction, and induction?
400
A device used to control current by providing resistance.
What is a resistor?
400
Draw a series circuit.
400
This happens to the resistance when a branch is added to a parallel circuit.
What is decrease?
400
0.2 amps
What is the amount of electric current that can kill a person?
500
The way that like charges react to each other.
What is repel?
500
Electricity that flows through a circuit, or a continuous unbroken path.
What is current electricity?
500
Draw a parallel circuit.
500
An electric current always produces one of these as it flows.
What is a magnetic field?
500
A device with a thin metal strip that melts if to much current flows through it.
What is a fuse?
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