Vocabulary
A Conductor
What is a material that allows electric current to flow through it.
A mechanical device used to open or close a circuit?
What is a Switch
Energy that is converted into light to make a light bulb glow
What is electrical energy
What is half?
Battery electricity comes from.
What is chemical energy?
The flow of electrical charge
A connected set of electrical elements.
What is a circuit
The brightness of 2 lightbulbs in parallel compared to 1 lightbulb.
What is the same?
The type of energy change between a battery and speaker?
What is transformation
Total Voltage when adding six 1.5 volt batteries in series.
What is 9 volts?
An Insulator
What is a material that does not allow an electric current to flow through it.
A type of circuit where there is only one path for electricity to flow.
The newer, more energy efficient type of lightbulb
what is an LED
The most conductive metal
What is gold
The letter code for the smallest cylindrical Battery
What is AAA?
The opposition of a material to the flow of electric current through it.
What is Resistance
A type of circuit in which there is more than one path for the flow of electric current.
What is a parallel circuit
what is filament (thin metal wire)
A material that sometimes conducts charge.
What is a semi-conductor?
The unit of electrical current.
What is an amp?
The units of "pushing power" of a circuit.
What are Volts?
A drawing of a circuit using standardized symbols.
What is a circuit diagram?
A light that only glows when current flows the right way.
What is an LED
The chemical element that makes up most semi-conductors.
What is Silicon?
The positive and negative ends of the battery
What is a terminal?