Static Electricity & Using Electricity
What makes a Circuit
Magnetic Poles
Detecting a Magnetic Field
In the Making: Elctromagnet
100
The buildup of electric charge in one place.
What is Static Electricity
100
How much a material opposes or resists, the flow of electric current.
What is Resistance
100
An object that attracts iron and some other metals
What is a Magnet
100
a tool used to determine direction.
What is a compass
100
A magnet that has coils of current-carrying wire around an iron core
What is an Electromagnet
200
The area around electric charges, where electric forces can act
What is Electric field
200
This Parade at Disneyland uses half-million lights powered by thousands of circuits
What is the Electrical Parade at Disneyland
200
The space in which the magnetic force acts around a magnet.
What is a Magnetic Field
200
These amazing lights are caused by the particles from the sun interacting with Earths magnetic field
What are Northern Lights caused by
200
This Device uses 294 magnets
What big magnet at Stanford University helps Scientist to study the property of matter
300
Lightning is, it has made 3 deaths in California and 70 in Florida
What is the result of static electricity
300
What material has a resistance of 2.65
What is Aluminum
300
Thin Strips, each strip is lined with poles opposite to the one next
What is Flat Rubber Magnet made of.
300
This helped Sailors find their way at night and in a storm but now today most ships don't need this device for help, they have other technology now in the 21st Century
What effect did the invention of the compass have on ocean travel
400
This tool can fix cracks in metal underwater. Light is also produced in this process.
What is Arc Welder
400
This wire has a high resistance compared to copper wires in other circuits
What is a Filament
400
They each have a north seeking and a south seeking side
How are all magnets alike
400
When a compass is near this device it will throw the compass off pointing it in the wrong direction.
How does a magnet interfere with the direction of a compass
400
By passing through the wire coil.
How can electricity be used to make a magnet?
500
To protect from electricity by covering with a material that does not carry current
What is Insulate
500
Some Outlets have this, if there was a short circuit or wires overheat, the red button pops out
What is a Circuit Breaker
500
This Sculptor has cords that are suspended or held in place by an invisible force. The force is the pull of magnetism between strong magnets on the ends on the ends of cords.
What is the Sculptor Suspension
500
The needle is balanced on a point so it can turn freely
What is a Pivot
500
This device is in almost everything that we use everyday in technology to construction equipment
How are electromagnets important in our everyday lives.
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