Electric Charges and their movement
Static Electricity
Going With the Flow
Conductors and Insulators
Magnets & Vocabulary
100
The tiny building blocks of everything
What are atoms?
100
Particles moving between atoms in storm clouds become this.
What is charged?
100
This subatomic particle flows through the wire when an electric field is present.
What is an electron
100

What is a material that lets electric current pass through?

What is a conductor?

100
This is a measure of the amount of electrical energy transferred by an electric charge as it moves from one point to another in a circuit.
What is voltage!
200
The same number of positive particles as negative particles. (charge)
What is neutral?
200
The ______ particles in storm clouds tend to gather at the top of the cloud while the ________ particles tend to gather at the bottom of the cloud.
What is positive and negative?
200
this is a path in which electric charges can flow.
What is an electric circuit.
200

What is a material that blocks an electric current from passing through?

What is an insulator?

200
Every magnet has two of these!
What are magnetic poles
300
When the positive and negative charges no longer balance. This is when negative charges are built up much more than positive.
What is static electricity?
300
This is a movement of a static charge from from place to another
What is static discharge
300
Name things (2) that electrons flow easily through. Examples
What is wire, metal poles, anything metal.
300

Which of these materials is not a conductor: copper, aluminum, gold, or wood?

What is wood?

300
This is a current carrying wire wrapped around an iron core
What is electromagnet
400
An electric charge in motion. (electrons in motion)
What is an electric current?
400
This is an imbalance of electric charge (-) on an object
What is static charge
400
Name at least 2 things that could slow the flow of electrons in a circuit.
wood plastic rubber
400

Which of these materials is a conductor: rubber, glass, air, silver?

What is silver?

400
Explain how you could make the magnetic force between two magnets weaker and stronger.
What is pull them closer and farther apart.
500
When there is a break in a circuit. It can be called a _________ circuit.
What is an open circuit?
500
These are the two ways an object can be charged.
What is charging by contact & charging by indcution
500
Electrons flow from the ______ terminal to the ________ terminal. (think about a battery)
What is negative to positive.
500

True or False: Skin is a conductor.

What is true.

500
The production of an electric current by moving a magnet and a loop relative to each other is called this.
What is electromagnetic induction
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