VOCABULARY
Electric Charge
Electricity
Electric Currents
Vocabulary 2
100
What is the term for the flow of electric charge
What is electric current
100
An atom has lost an electron to have a charge of +1. It is now_____
What is a proton
100
What flows in a electric circuit
What are electrons
100
Electrical currents are measured in
What are WATTS
100
what is an atom that has gained or lost electrons called
What is ion
200
What is the relationship among voltage, current, and resistance in a circuit
What is Ohm's Law
200
Like charges in electric currents
What is repel
200
As the voltage increases what happens to the current
What is increase
200
Which type of circuit has more than one path for electrons to follow
What is parallel circuit
300
In what type of material do electrons move easily
What is a conductor
300
Unlike charges in electric currents ____
What is attract
300
Feeling a shock from a metal door handle is an example of an
What is electric discharge
300
The measure of how much energy electrons have
What is voltage
300
What is rapid movement of excess charge known as
What is electric discharge
400
What is the name for the unbroken path that current follows
What is a circuit
400
Electric charges exert a force on each other at a distance through an
What is electric field
400
When something is grounded what happens to the excess electrical charge
What is drained into the earth
400
When the electrons in the chemicals are used up the battery will run
What is out/down
400
The rate at which electricial energy is converted into other forms of energy
What is electric power
500
What is an excess of electric charge on an object
What is static charge
500
What happens to the strength of an electric field as you get closer to it
What is increase
500
What goes through your body when you feel an electric shock
What is voltage
500
What variable does Ohm's Law not describe
What is power
500
Electric charges exert a force on each other at a distance through an
What is electric field
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