Vocabulary
Electric Charge and Force
Current and Simple Circuits
Types of Circuits
Miscellaneous
100
The negatively charged particle in an atom
What is an electron?
100
The two types of electric charge
What are positive and negative?
100
Movement of electrically charge particles
What is (electric) current?
100
A circuit with only one path for electrons to flow
What is a series circuit?
100
the process of unbalanced electric charge becoming balanced
What is electric discharge?
200
Occurs when an electric current passes through the human body
What is electric shock?
200
Electrons will pass easily through these
What are (electric) conductors?
200
A complete path on which current can travel
What is (electric) circuit?
200
Can be a battery, plug in or generator
What is a source?
200
A circuit is considered this if electricity cannot flow through the entire thing
What is open (broken)?
300
The measure of how difficult it is for an electric current to flow in a material
What is resistance?
300
Like charges do this
What is repel?
300
the equation for Ohm's law
What is V=IR?
300
Connects the source to the device in a circuit
What is wire?
300
The type of circuit that most homes and buildings are wired with
What is parallel?
400
An unbalanced negative or positive charge on an object is sometimes referred to as this
What is static charge?
400
Electrons will not pass easily through these
What are (electric) insulators?
400
A material common used in electric wire because it is a good conductor
What is copper?
400
A circuit with more than path for energy to flow
What is parallel?
400
A form of electric discharge that happens in a storm cloud
What is lightning?
500
An object is considering this when electrons concentrate at one end of an object
What is polarized?
500
The two variables that affect force between two objects
What is distance and amount of charge?
500
The amount of energy the source uses to move on coulomb of electrons through the circuit
What is voltage?
500
Three types of safety devices that break a circuit
What are fuses, circuit breakers, and GFCIs?
500
Equal to 6 quintillion electrons
What is a coulomb?
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