Electricity Vocab
A device that transforms or converts chemical energy into electrical energy or electric current.
What is a battery?
A force field surrounding magnetic objects. Measured in units of teslas (T).
What is a magnetic field?
What is a switch?
Which of these materials BEST conducts electricity? Copper, Rock, Paper, Wood
What is copper?
The amount of electrical potential energy that each unit of electric charge has.
What is voltage?
This is the buildup of electrical charge, either positive or negative, on the surface of an insulating material.
What is static electricity?
An electric circuit where the electric current has only one path.
What is a series circuit?
Which of the following materials is the safest to use as an insulator to cover electrical wires? Caulk, Rubber, Aluminum, Paper
What is rubber?
This is an electric circuit where the electric current has only one path.
What is a series circuit?
The SI unit for electric charge.
What is coulomb (C)?
What is electrical?
Plastic material is a good______. Insulator, Conductor, Electrogmagnet, Circuit
What is insulator?
This law states the sum of the voltage drops (voltage differences) around a closed loop equals zero.
What is Kirchhoff’s voltage law?
A device with two parallel conducting plates separated by a narrow gap usually filled with an insulating material.
What is a capacitor?
An electrical device that resists the flow of electric current.
What is a resistor?
Which object is a good insulator? Nail, Penny, Paperclip, Rubber Band
What is rubber band̈?
This is an instrument with different settings that can measure current (ammeter), voltage (voltmeter), or resistance (ohmmeter).
What is a digital multimeter?
A type of substance, such as iron, that experiences strong magnetic forces when in the presence of a magnet.
What is ferromagnetic?
A wire connects two terminals of a battery. Is there a current, and if there is what direction does it flow in?
What is yes, counterclockwise?
Which of the following materials is a poor conductor and a good insulator? Wood, Tin, Silver, Copper