Electric (electron) movement
Shock me if you can
Going With the Flow
Circuits & Vocab
Vocabulary
100
The tiny building blocks of everything. They're tiny and they're teeny!
What are atoms?
100

The ability to do work

Energy

100

The energy resulting from an electrical charge

What is an electrical energy?

100
What is the thing that closes and opens the current in a circuit.
What is a switch.
100

Every magnet has two of these

What is a magnet

200

The flow of electric current through a pathway

What is Electricity ?

200

_ energy examples includes computer screens, lamps and the sun.

Light

200
this is a path in which electric charges can flow.
What is an circuit.
200
This is the SI unit of electric current.
What is V or voltage
200
Electric Current move easily in these.
What are conductors
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

- energy is the sum of potential and kinetic energy

Mechanical 

300

Name things (2) that electrons flow easily through. Examples

What is wire, metal poles, anything metal.

300
What factors affect the strength of electric forces?
resistance, amount of electricity, # of bulbs.....
300
Transfer of electrons between objects in contact
What is charging by contact
400
An electric charge in motion. (electrons in motion usually in a wire)
What is an electric current?
400

True or False : The faster the particles move in an object the hotter it feels.

True

400
Name at least 2 things that could slow the flow of electrons in a circuit.
wood plastic rubber
400
In this circuit, devices are connected so there is only 1 closed path for current to follow.
What is series
400

An object that acts as a buffer, and does not allow electricity to flow through it.

What is an insulator.

500

Electric currents are surrounded by these....

What is an electric fields

500

What materials are the best known conductors known to man ?

Metals

500

What is the most important thing needed to produce electricity?

What is a power source

500

What are the two types of circuits ?

What are a open and a closed circuit

500
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
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