How Electricity Works
Electricity Beginings
Vocabulary
Interesting Facts
Conductors
100
How does electricity go from one place to another?
Complete path or electrical circuit.
100
Who invented the electrical lightbulb?
Thomas Edison.
100
What is electricity?
Energy from the flow of electrons.
100
How can you tell if electricity is a nonrenewable or renewable resource?
Depending on the resource used to create it.
100
What is one good conductor of electricity?
Metals.
200
How do we get electricity?
Putting a plug in an outlet.
200
When was the electrical lightbulb invented?
1879.
200
What is an electrical circuit?
A device that uses electricity to preform a task.
200
What happens to water when electricity hits it?
Splitting water into the two elements hydrogen and oxygen.
200
What are semi conductors of electricity?
Germanium and Carbon.
300
What is electricity measured in?
Units.
300
When and where was the first power plant?
New York City 1882.
300
What is a turbine?
Converting kinetic energy from a moving fluid.
300
What causes static electricity?
When charges aren't moving.
300
What are poor conductors of electricity?
Glass and plastic.
400
How is electricity generated?
Large magnet that spins inside coils of wire.
400
When did electricity increased in homes?
1920.
400
What are electric motors?
An energy using forces of electricity and others.
400
What is chemical?
Fill in the blank: Turbines converts _________ energy into electricity.
400
What are some of the best elements that conduct electricity?
Gold,copper, and silver.
500
What happens when electricity flows from a power source to wires?
Stuff that powers our electronics.
500
What is lightning and electricity?
Fill in the blank: Ben Franklin was the first one to connect ______ and _________.
500
What is an electrical current?
A flow of electric charges.
500
How fast does electricity go?
186,000 miles per second.
500
What doesn't conduct electricity?
Rubber.
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