Vocabulary
A pathway for the flow of electric current
What is a circuit?
The inventor of the phonograph, motion picture camera, and first copy machine
Who is Thomas Edison?
The long white tubes that produce light
What are fluorescent lamps?
What is heat, motion, sound, or light?
The material batteries are full of
What are chemicals?
A source of electricity created from stored chemical energy
What is a battery?
The year Thomas Edison was born
What is 1847?
Fluorescent lamp tubes are filled with this
What is gas?
What is the sun?
Electric buses have batteries in this location
What is under the seats?
The ability to do work
What is energy?
The year Thomas Edison died
What is 1931?
Compact fluorescent lightbulbs are in this shape
What is a coil?
This can make things hot or cold
What is electricity?
Batteries produce electricity when this happens
When the chemicals in the batteries react?
The material in a lightbulb (usually a thin wire) that makes light when heated by an electric current
What is filament?
The problem with the first lightbulbs
What is they burned too quickly?
The modern way for lighting homes which is a savings in cost
What is LED?
Wires are connected to this device in power plants
What is a generator?
The most popular way to transfer or move energy to get a job done
What is electricity?
A circuit that has a break in it
What is an open circuit or an incomplete circuit?
The hotter the filament gets
What is the brighter the light?
The year LED lights were discovered
What is 1962?
What is a battery?
Some alternative sources of energy (list 2)
What are light and heat from the sun, moving air or wind, heat from inside the Earth, and moving water?