Vocabulary
Current Electricity and Circuits
Static Electricity
Magnets
100
What is an insulator?
Something that stops electricity from passing through.
100
What is current electricity?
Current electricity is electricity that flows through wires.
100
What is static electricity?
An electric charge that builds up in an object.
100
An object that pulls iron objects towards itself is a what?
What is a magnet
200
What is a conductor? Give and example of a conductor
A material that electrons can pass through- metals
200
What is needed to make electricity? A.magnets only B. coil of wire only C. both a magnet and a coil of wire D. Neither a magnet nor coil of wire
C. both coil of wire and magnet
200
Where can you see static electricity in nature?
lightning
200
What are the ends of magnets called?
Poles
300
Explain the difference between attract and repel
attract is a pull and repel is a push
300

Type of circuit with multiple paths.

What is a parallel circuit?

300
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300
Which two ends of the magnets would attract to each other? Which would repel?
N and N or S and S repel N and S would attract
400
What is a generator?
A machine that uses a magnet to make current electricity
400
Explain how a circuit works.
Electrons flow from the power source through the wires to the receiver and back into the power source.
400
Why does your hair stand up if you rub a balloon on it ?
Your hair stands up because the electrons are trying to move to the balloon which has taken the protons and they want to be back together
400
How can magnets be used in your daily life?
to sort objects, to help produce electricity, in a compass
500
What is an electromagnet?
An electromagnet is a magnet formed using electricity that can be turned on and off.
500
Type of circuit with only one path-all or nothing

What is a series circuit?

500

Lightning is a large scale example of this

static discharge

500

What is an object called that takes the magnetism from an magnet and becomes a magnet for while in the magnets magnetic field.

ferromagnetism
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