Material that an electric current does not pass through easily.
What is an insulator?
100
An incomplete path for an electric current.
What is an open circuit?
100
To avoid an electric shock, you should never use electric appliances near...
What is water?
100
Copper wire is a good example.
What is a conductor?
100
Your finger is shocked by ___________________ when you touch a doorknob.
What is static electricity?
200
Material that an electric current easily passes through.
What is a conductor?
200
A complete path for an electric current.
What is a closed circuit?
200
Two dangers of electricity.
What is burns, fire, shock, heart may stop
200
Plastic or rubber are good examples.
What is an insulator?
200
A particle in the nucleus of an atom with a positive electric charge.
What is a proton?
300
Stops and starts the flow of an electric current in a circuit.
What is a switch?
300
If one light bulb burns out in this type of circuit, all of the lights burn out.
What is a series circuit?
300
How to avoid electricity dangers.
What is
not overloading outlets, use a powercord
replace frayed powercords,
unplug unused appliances,
move paper far from anything electric,
don't use appliances near water
300
The kind of electricity that powers the appliances in your home.
What is current electricity?
300
When conducting wire is made into a coil, it is called a ____________________________.
What is a solenoid?
400
Is the force that surrounds the magnet’s poles. If iron filings are placed around a magnet, the iron filings will become arranged in a pattern that shows this.
What is a magnetic field?
400
Electric current flows through more than one path.
What is a parallel circuit?
400
Connecting too many plugs to one outlet is dangerous and is often called _______________.
What is an octopus outlet?
400
The voltage of three 1.5 volt batteries hooked up in series.
What is a 4.5 volts?
400
Two types of electric charges.
What are positive and negative?
500
The flow of electric charges.
What is an electric current?
500
Four parts of most circuits.
What is resistor, switch, energy source, and conductor.
500
You lose power due to a storm. Having this will give you temporary power.
What is a generator?
500
Lightning is an example.
What is static electricity?
500
Two ways to increase the strength of electromagnets.
What is adding more coils to the solenoid and making the coils closer together?