Electric
Circuits
Famous Scientists
Resistance
Current
100
The movement of electrons
What is electricity?
100
A continuous unbroken path upon which electricity can travel
What is a circuit?
100
This scientist made the connection between electricity and lightning.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
100
The measure of how easily or difficult electrons flow through a material.
What is resistance?
100
The continuous flow of electrons
What is current?
200
The part of an atom that carries a positive charge
What is a proton?
200
Electric charges flow in a row or in one direction in this.
What is a series circuit?
200
This scientist was able to calculate how many electrons flowed past a given spot during a second (or a given amount of time)
Who is Andre Marie Ampere?
200
A device that slows the flow of electrons
What is a resistor?
200
Material where current is usually carried.
What is metal?
300
The part of an atom that carries a neutral charge
What is a neutron?
300
Electrical charges flow on a separate branches for each device
What is a parallel circuit?
300
This scientist developed a way to measure the difference in electric potential between two spots
Who is Alessandro Volta?
300
A material that allows the free flow of electrons
What is a conductor?
300
The flow of electric charge in one direction.
What is direct current?
400
The part of an atom that carries a negative charge
What is an electron?
400
The unit that measures resistance is named for this scientist.
Who is Georg Ohm?
400
A material that does not allow the free flow of electrons.
What is an insulator?
400
The flow of electric charge where is reverses direction periodically.
What is alternating current?
500
The person who is credited with discovering electric charges. HINT: He also named them positive and negative.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
500
The rate of flow of charges through a circuit.
What is current?
500
Discovered the basis of electricity being used for nerve impulses
Who is Luigi Galvani?
500
What these four items have in common: Material used, diameter of wire, length of wire, temperature of wire.
What are the factors that determine resistance?
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