Electric Charges and their movement
Static Electricity
Going With the Flow
Circuits & Vocab
Vocabulary
100
The source of the electricity that powers to circuit.
What is the battery?
100
Particles moving between atoms in storm clouds causes what?
What is lightning?
100
Your circuit doesn't work, how can you solve the problem?
What are check to see if the wires are touching? other answers possible
100
What is the thing that closes and opens the current in a circuit.
What is a switch?
100
A prediction or educated guess.
What is a hypothesis?
200
The flow of electricity.
What is a circuit?
200
Two balloons refuse to go together. Explain this phenomenon.
They both have like charges.
200
This is a path in which electric charges can flow.
What is a circuit?
200
What type of circuit is preferred in a house?
What is a parallel circuit?
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
The reason two objects are attracted to each other and will stay together.
They have opposite charges.
300
Name things (3) that electrons flow easily through. Examples
What is wire, metal poles, anything metal.
300
Give me an example of something that is a series circuit.
What is a light switch in a room? Many other examples work
300
The charges in an atom.
What are protons, neutrons and electrons?
400
What are the materials needed to make a simple circuit?
What are a bulb, wires and battery?
400
Imbalance of (-) negative electric charge on an object.
What is static charge?
400
Name at least 3 things that could slow the flow of electrons in a circuit.
What are wood, plastic, and rubber?
400
In this circuit, devices are connected so there is only 1 closed path for current to follow.
What is series circuit?
400
Explain how a series and parallel circuit are different.
What is a series circuit has one closed path and a parallel circuit has more than one path?
500
Electricity cannot pass through these.
What are insulators?
500
Name something that will cause a static charge in your body.
What is rubbing your feet across the carpet?
500
This subatomic particle flows easily in a circuit.
What is an electron?
500
This is a circuit where there is more than one close path for a current to follow.
What is a parallel 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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