Circuits and Currents
Electricity Transmission
Batteries
Safety
How electricity works
100
A series circuit is connected in _________ loop(s).
One
100
What is the electric current sent through as it leaves the power plant?
A transformer
100
Batteries are made of ______________ electricity
Static
100

Safety precautions will keep the wires in your house from being overloaded with the... 

Current
100
Where electricity starts
An atom
200
What is found inside a circuit(get at least one correct)
Conductors, conducting devices, electromotive source(battery)
200
The voltage of electricity is __________ once it is sent into homes
lowered
200
What surrounds the battery that gives it its negative charge?
Zinc
200

A switch that automatically stops the flow of electric current if a circuit becomes overloaded

Circuit breaker
200
What type of charge do electrons carry?
Negative
300

What current changes its direction during specific periods or cycles?

Alternating Current
300
What is an example of an electricity generating site?
Power Plant
300
A carbon rod that is dipped in electrolyte paste makes a __________ ___________ in a battery
positive charge
300

An electrical device that protects appliances against voltage spikes

Surge Protector
300

The electrons that orbit the atom and are able to escape the atom and become free

Valance Electrons
400
The total amount of power
Rtotal
400
All power plants across the country are connected to form the 
Power grid
400
Electricity can produce __________ and ___________.
repulsion and attraction
400

A short wire made to melt when the current becomes too high in a circuit



Fuse
400

When the free electron finds a new atom to attach itself to, it will push one of the valence electrons on that atom off creating a cycle. This is called an...

Electric current
500
Who developed the alternating current? First name OR last name is acceptable
Nikola Tesla
500

A set of equipment reducing the high voltage of electrical power transmission to that suitable for supply to consumers

Substation

500
What did Volta invent in 1800?
The voltaic pile
500
Too much __________ or too many _______________ can cause the circuit to short out, or a very high current in the circuit(only have to get one of the blanks)
energy, electrons
500

Charges of the same type repel each other, while charges of opposite types are attracted to each other.

Electrostatic force or Coulomb's law
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