Vocabulary 1
This is the flow of electricity through a pathway.
What is a Current?
This is the flow of electric charges.
What is Electricity?
This is a material that allows electricity to travel through easily.
What is a Conductor?
Give 2 examples of an electrical conductor.
Examples: penny, metal fork, water
Leslie connects a wire to a battery. Why is the circuit not complete?
The device is missing from the circuit.
This is a material that does not allow electricity to travel through easily.
What is an Insulator?
This is a component of a circuit that stores electricity.
What is a Battery?
This is electricity that gathers in one place or on a surface.
What is Static Electricity?
Give at least two examples of an electrical insulator.
Examples: Paper, Plastic Bottle, air
Riley connects a wire to a light bulb. Why does this circuit not work?
This circuit does not work because it doesn't have a power source (battery).
This is the pressure that pushes electricity.
What is Voltage?
This is the unit of measurement for an electric current.
What is an amp?
What is a type of circuit that is a complete path for electricity to flow?
What is a Closed Circuit?
Give at least two examples of Static Electricity.
Lightning, Rubbing your hair on a balloon, Rubbing your feet with socks on the carpet
Ashley plugs in her blender and turns it on. Explain why this works. What are the three components of a circuit in this situation? (What would be the power source, wire, and device?)
It works because it is a full circuit. In this case, the power source is the electric outlet, the wire is the cord, and the device is the blender.
What is a circuit with an incomplete path so an electric current cannot flow?
What is an Open Circuit?
This is used to control the flow of an electric current.
What is a Switch?
This is a circuit in which all parts are connected one after another.
What is a Series Circuit?
Timmy creates a closed circuit with the light switch. Is the light on or off?
The light is on.
Jade creates an open circuit when charging her phone. Is the phone charging?
Jade took the phone off the charger.
This is a type of circuit where the electric current is divided into paths.
What is a Parallel Circuit?
This is a pathway for electricity to travel through.
What is a Circuit?
These are the three components of a working circuit.
What are a battery, wire, and device?
What is the difference between a closed and open circuit? How does this affect the flow of electricity?
A closed circuit is completely connected, which allows electricity to flow and power the device. An open circuit has a break in it, so the device does not work because electricity cannot flow.
Emma wants to create a working circuit using an object. Which object should she use? Why?
(a metal fork, a paper straw, a plastic spoon)
He should use the metal fork because it is a conductor of electricity.