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A metal substance through which electricity current moves.
What is wires?
The ability to do work.
What is energy?
A source of energy-a type of battery.
What is a D-Cell?
A source of stored chemical energy.
What is a battery?
A device that produces motion from electricity.
What is a motor?
A device used to open and close circuits.
What is a switch?
Observable evidence of energy (using motor).
What is motion?
A flow of electricity through a conductor.
What is an electric current?
To move from one source to another.
What is transfers?
A pathway for the flow of electricity.
What is a circuit?
The material in a lightbulb (usually a thin wire) that makes light when heated by an electric current.
What is filament?
An incomplete circuit through which electricity will NOT flow.
What is an open circuit?
Energy that flows through circuits and can produce heat, light, motion, and sound.
What is electricity?
The area on a lightbulb where one of the filament support wires extends down to the metal bed.
What is a bulb base?
A complete circuit through which electricity flows.
What is a closed circuit?
Inside of the metal screw case on a lightbulb where the second filament wire connects.
What is a bulb casing?
A material that prevents the flow of electricity (plastic, rubber, glass, or air).
What is an insulator?
A circuit that has 2 or more pathways for current to flow.
What is a parallel circuit?
A filament held by 2 stiff wires and surrounded by a clear bulb.
What is a light bulb?
Usually a metal such as copper or aluminum through which electricity will flow.
What is a conductor?