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FINAL JEOPARDY
100

Electrons flowing

What is current electricity?

100

The center of an atom

What is a nucleus?

100

A machine that produces electrical current

What is a generator?

200

Electrons moving in one direction and then reversing direction

What is alternating current?

200

A negative particle circling an atom’s nucleus

What is an electron?

200

A container that stores a chemical mixture that can produce electricity

What is a battery?

300

Electrons flowing in one direction

What is direct current?

300

A positive particle in an atom’s nucleus

What is a proton?

300

A material that electricity can pass through easily

What is a conductor?

400

Electricity that stays in one place, not moving

What is static electricity?

400

A particle in an atom’s nucleus that has no electric charge

What is a neutron?

400

A measure of electrical force

What is voltage?

500

A circular route that returns to its starting point

What is a circuit?

500

A buildup or flow of charged particles called electrons

What is electricity?

500

An element in a circuit that slows electrons

What is resistance?

500

Define the word "charge"

An imbalance of electrons

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