Kinetic / Potential
The energy in a moving object.
What is kinetic energy?
All metals are...
What is a conductor?
The name of a loop of parts that will turn a light on.
What is a closed circuit?
The type of circuit with only one path for electricity to flow.
What is a series circuit?
Energy is...
What is the ability to do work?
Energy that is stored.
What is potential energy?
Plastic, wood, cloth, paper are...
What is an insulator?
The result of a light in an open circuit.
What is a light that turns off?
The type of circuit with more than one path for electricity to flow.
What is a parallel circuit?
One word to explain thermal energy.
What is heat?
The energy in a rolling ball.
What is kinetic energy?
Electricity is stopped - conductors or insulators.
What is an insulator?
If our lights are on in the room, is the circuit opened or closed?
What is closed?
The result of one light going out in a series circuit.
What is all the lights go out?
The type of electricity that happens when you rub a balloon on your head and then hold it over a plate of pepper.
What is static electricity?
The energy in a stretched elastic band.
What is potential energy?
Name two conductors
What is metal wire? What is water? What is alligator clips?
The three parts of an atom.
What is protons, neutrons, electrons?
The result of one light going out in a parallel circuit.
What is the other lights stay on?
The type of electricity that happens when you connect two wires, a lightbulb, and a battery in a loop.
What is current electricity?
Higher potential energy - a book on the top shelf or a book on the bottom shelf.
What is the top shelf?
Name two insulators
What is wood? What is plastic? What is paper?
Name the part of the atom that carries the electricity through movement (bouncing around).
What is an electron?
The potential energy in a battery or a light is measured in...
What is voltage?
Name two appliances that use thermal energy.
What is an iron? What is a stove? What is a microwave? What is a toaster?