Vocabulary
Currents
Insulator or Conductor
How do I measure??
Circuits
100
A measure of how difficult it is for an electric current to flow in a material?
What is electric resistance?
100
The movement of electrically charged particles, such as electrons
What is an electric current?
100
Wood
What is an insulator?
100
In an electric circuit, it is the amount of energy used to move one coulomb of electrons through the material
What is voltage?
100
An electric circuit that has only one path through which an electric current can flow/ Christmas lights
What is a series circuit?
200
A battery (electric source), wire (conductor) and a light bulb (device)
What is a simple circuit?
200
The two types of currents
What are AC (alternating current) and DC (direct current)?
200
Water
What is a conductor?
200
The way to measure voltage
What is a coulomb? ( 1 coulomb of electrons is equal to 6 quintillion 6,000,000,000,000,000,000)
200
An electric circuit where each device connects to the electric source with a separate path or branch
What is a parallel circuit?
300
An example of DC or direct current
What is a battery?
300
AC or Alternating Current
What is a current that continually reverses directions?
300
A wire
What is a conductor?
300
Voltage
What is the amount of energy used to move one coulomb of electrons through the material?
300
A house is an example of this kind of circuit
What is a parallel circuit?
400
An example of AC or alternating current
What is an outlet or connection to electric outlet?
400
DC or Direct Current
What is a current where electrons continually are added to one end of a wire to create a constant one-way flow ?
400
Plastic
What is an insulator?
400
In an electric circuit, it is the amount of energy used to move one coulomb of electrons through the material
What is voltage?
400
A string of Christmas lights, if one goes out the rest go out
What is a series circuit?
500
The parts needed for a simple circuit
What is a battery (electric source), wire (a conductor), and a light bulb (device)
500
Usually the kind of current in a house
What is Alternating Current or AC?
500
You (a person)
What is a conductor?
500
How voltage is measured
What are coulombs?
500
An object where the electric circuit is complete or closed/ an example is a microwave
What is a useful circuit?
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