Vocabulary
A complete path of electricity.
What is a closed circuit?
What are wires?
What are ground wires?
What is an open circuit?
Distributes power to the community
What is a substation?
Helps prevent city wide blackouts; helps prevent fires
What is a breaker (circuit breaker)?
Positive and negative ends; provides power with chemicals.
What is a battery?
flow of electricity; what powers our buildings
What is energy?
Source of the power
What is a power plant?
It protects us from getting shocked; waterproofing wires
What is insulation?
windmills; dams; solar
What is renewable energy?
The place that take power from the substation
What is a house/building?
Plastic piece covering wiring in the house
What is an electric socket?
Uses earths heat to turn water into steam for power
What is Geothermal energy?
Uses water to create energy
What is a dam? (hydro electric energy)
Can respond by breaking a circuit before a person is injured; not a circuit breaker
What is a GFCI?