Vocabulary
What are the postive and negative ends of a D-cell called?
Terminals
What evidence of energy transfer does the lightbulb display? In other words, how do you know the lightbulb has energy?
Light and/or Heat
What does every circuit need in order to light the lightbulb or run the motor?
Energy Source
An incomplete circuit where energy does not flow is called a what?
Open Circuit
An unintended pathway that allows current to pass from one terminal to another without passing through other components is called what?
Short Circuit.
A material that allows the transfer of energy is called what?
Conductor
Name the 2 contact points on the lightbulb.
Metal Casing and the Bulb Base
Components
A complete circuit where energy is abled to be transferred is called a what?
Closed Circuit
A material that does not transfer energy is called what?
Insulator
What part of the lightbulb traps the glow?
Glass Globe
A circuit that all the components share a pathway is what kind of circuit?
Series Circuit
Conductors are what kind of material?
Metals
Contact Points
Who invented the incandescent lightbulb?
Thomas Edison
A circuit where each lightbulb has its own pathway to the energy source is what kind of circuit?
Parallel Circuit
Motion and Sound
What is the "flow of electricity" called?
Electric Current
What part of the lightbulb heats up and produces the glow?
Fragment
Energy moving from one component to the next is called what?
Transfer
What is a battery?
Stored electrical energy.