What are the two types of electrical charges called?
positive and negative
100
What is the term that describes material that electric current can pass through easily?
conductor
100
Which of these is an example of STATIC ELECTRICITY: thunder, clouds, lightning, or wind?
lightning
100
How would you describe a parallel circuit?
electricity flows along more than one pathway
100
What does an electrical motor use to create motion? Electrical energy, wind energy, light energy or stored energy?
Electrical energy
200
What happens between two objects that both have a positive charge?
They repel each other
200
What is the term that describes material that electric current cannot pass through easily?
insulator
200
Why do cat hairs stick to clothing?
The clothing and cat hairs are electrically charged
200
In a series circuit all charges flow how?
along the same path
200
When electricity passes through the filament of a light bulb, it is changed to what? Light, motion, static electricity or cold?
Light
300
What happens between a positive charge and a negative charge?
They attract each other
300
What is the term that describes where there is one path for electric current?
series circuit
300
If you rub a balloon with a wool cloth, what happens?
negative charges move from the wool to the balloon
300
In a parallel circuit, current flows through one path or more than one path?
more than one path
300
Which of the following appliances DOES NOT create both light and heat? Table lamp, light bulb, hair dryer or stove?
hair dryer
400
When an object has no overall electric charge, the object has what?
The same number of positive and negative charges
400
What is the term that describes where there is more than one path for electric current?
parallel circuit
400
Can electric current flow in an open circuit?
no
400
If all of the clocks at Santiago Hills are connected through a parallel circuit and the clock in Mr. Schlicting's office goes out, what will happen to the rest of the clocks?
all of the rest of the clocks will continue to run
400
Electric motors in cars change electrical energy to what? Heat, light, motion or current?
motion
500
Static electricity is the buildup of what?
charged particles on an object
500
Copper wire in a circuit conducts or resists electricity?
conducts
500
A path with little resistance is sometimes called what?
short circuit
500
When a lamp is turned on, electrical energy changes into another form of energy...which one? Motion, sound, light or chemical?