Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Vocabulary 3
Vocabulary 4
Miscellaneous
100
a circuit that has only one path for a current to travel
What is series circuit?
100
a circuit that has more than one path for along which a current can travel
What is parallel circuit?
100
a type of electricity that is a flow of a current, or electric charge
What is current electricity?
100
a device used to open and close a circuit
What is a switch?
100
the shape a circuit makes when it is complete
What is a circle?
200
a coil of wire through which a current passes and produces a magnetic field
What is an electromagnet?
200
a circuit in which a current takes an easier path than the one intended
What is a short circuit?
200
a safety device added to circuits to prevent electrical fires
What is a fuse?
200
to pull together
What is attract?
200
water is a conductor (true or false)
What is true?
300
a material that a current CANNOT pass through easily
What is an insulator?
300
this is a force that causes objects to gain or lose static charge (electrons)
What is friction?
300
energy that results from the position or movement of electrical charges
What is electricity?
300
a material that a current can pass through easily
What is a conductor?
300
a toaster is an example of this
What is a load?
400
a type of electricity that makes a quick jump or connection, but does not flow in a continuous path
What is static electricity?
400
anything using energy that is being delivered by the electrical circuit
What is load?
400
the power source of a circuit which produces electrical energy from chemical energy
What is battery?
400
a complete and continuous pathway in which electricity can flow
What is a circuit?
400
an example of this is when you rub a balloon on your head and your hair stands straight up
What is static electricity?
500
to push apart
What is repel?
500
a machine that uses electromagnets to change electrical energy into motion
What is a motor?
500
the area of invisible force which exists in and around a magnet
What is magnetic field?
500
a thin wire that glows inside a light bulb
What is a filament?
500
when a circuit is open, it is complete (true or false)
What is false?
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