The center of an atom where protons and neutrons are located.
What is the nucleus?
100
These types of charges attract and are pulled toward each other.
What are positive and negative charges?
100
The place where electricity in your home comes from and goes back to.
What is the power plant?
100
These 2 forces are very closely related; each one can produce the other.
What are electricity and magnetism?
100
A material through which electricity can easily flow.
What is a conductor?
200
These particles have a negative charge and float around outside the nucleus.
What are electrons?
200
A giant spark of electric charges moving between a cloud and the ground, between a cloud and another cloud, or within a cloud.
What is lightning?
200
A unit of measurement used to measure how strongly the electrons in a wire are pushed.
What is a volt?
200
A device that uses a magnet to change mechanical energy into electrical energy.
What is a generator?
200
A material through which electricity cannot flow.
What is an insulator?
300
These particles have a positive charge and are located inside the nucleus.
What are protons?
300
Sparks to shocks that may be created when electrons jump from a negatively charged area to a positively charged area.
What is static electricity?
300
The part of a circuit that closes the circuit and allows electricity to flow or opens the circuit and prevents the flow of electricity.
What is a switch?
300
In a generator, this is connected to the magnet inside the coil of wire and it turns the magnet.
What is the drive shaft?
300
The number of watts in 6 kilowatts.
What is 6,000 watts?
400
Most atoms have a neutral charge because the number of these two types of particles are equal.
What are protons and electrons?
400
The steady flow of electric charges (electrons) through a wire.
What is an electric current?
400
A unit of measurement used to measure the amount of electrical energy used. This is the unit the electric company uses to measure the amount of electricity used by individual homes.
What are kilowatt-hours?
400
In a generator, this is what turns inside the large coil of wire.
What is a strong magnet?
400
The amount of electric current required by larger appliances such as electric stoves, electric dryers and hot water heaters.
What is 220-volt electric current?
500
These types of particles can be "rubbed off" and move from one atom to another, changing the charges of the atoms.
What are electrons?
500
The path that electricity takes which begins and ends at the source of electricity.
What is an electric circuit?
500
These 3 types of special switches are designed to protect you and your family by switching off automatically in dangerous situations.
What are circuit breakers, fuses and GFCI outlets?
500
In a generator, this is what surrounds the strong magnet and carries the electric current that is created where it needs to go.
What is the coil of wire?
500
This reduces the high electrical voltage coming from the power plant to level that can be used in a home.