Electricity
Relationship
Sources
Energy Resources
General
100
Electrical charge that builds up on an object.
What is static electricity?
100
An object that attracts iron and a few other metals.
What is a magnet?
100
Energy due to an object's position or condition. Ex. A rubber band when stretched.
What is potential energy?
100
He made the first successful light bulb?
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
These were invented in the 1950's but people didn't have them until 1970.
What is a microwave oven?
200
A circuit that has only one path for the current to follow.
What is series circuit?
200
Two places at which its force is the strongest.
What is a magnetic pole?
200
Energy of motion.
What is kinetic energy?
200
Energy stored in the arrangement of particles of matter.
What is chemical energy?
200
During a power failure you use this to produce electricity for lights.
What is a gasoline-powered generator?
300
More than one path for the electric current to follow.
What is a parallel circuit?
300
The space around a magnet in which the force of the magnet acts.
What is a magnetic field?
300
Electrical energy made by using a dam and the kinetic energy of falling water.
What is hydroelectric power?
300
Makes machine parts move.
What is mechanical energy?
300
This changes electrical energy into mechanical energy.
What is an electric motor?
400
Material that lets electric charges move through them easily.
What is a conductor?
400
A temporary magnet. Has magnetic force only when an electric current moves through the wire.
What is an electromagnet?
400
Heat from inside the Earth.
What is Geothermal Energy?
400
They burn fossil fuels to change their stored chemical energy into heat.
What is a power plant?
400
This affects the strength of a magnet's attraction.
What is distance?
500
Materials that do not let electric charges move through them easily.
What is a insulators?
500
A device that produces an electric current.
What is a generator?
500
Energy of sunlight.
What is solar energy?
500
This product made from oil has chemical energy.
What is gasoline?
500
The turning of this causes a generator to spin.
What is a turbine?
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