Vocab 1
A material that does not conduct heat or electric current.
What is an Insulator?
The force that causes objects with mass to attract one another.
What is Gravity?
The pathway through which electric current flow.
What is an Electric Circuit?
A push or pull that can change the motion of an object.
What is a Force?
A substance that allows the flow of electrical charge or transfers thermal energy through matter.
What is a Conductor?
A negatively charged particle located in the electron cloud.
What is an Electron?
A positively charged particle that is located in the nucleus.
What is a Proton?
A directional flow of electrical charge through an object or medium.
What is a Current?
A force that attracts or repels objects toward or away from each other; caused by electrons in a substance.
What is Magnetism?
The smallest particle of an element; made of electrons, protons, and neutrons.
What is an Atom?
Producing, transmitting, or operating by electric currents.
What is Electric?
Matter with a surplus or deficiency of electrons.
What is a Charged Object?
A pathway that allows an electric current to flow freely.
What is a Closed Circuit?
A neutrally charged subatomic particle located in the nucleus of an atom; contributes to the mass of the atom.
What is a Neutron?
A pathway that prevents electric current from flowing freely or stops the flow.
What is an Open Circuit?
Examples include copper, gold and steel.
What are Examples of Conductors?
A force that attracts or repels objects toward or away from each other; caused by electrons in a substance.
What is Magnetism?
Examples include rubber, glass, and wood.
What are Examples of Insulators?
The simplest unit of a chemical compound that can exist, formed when two or more atoms join together chemically.
What is a Molecule?
Opposite charges _______ ; Like charges _______
What is Attract; Repel?
Describes a molecule in which one or more atoms is slightly negative and one or more is slightly positive.
What is Polar?
Electrical Current to Mechanical Force.
What are Motors?
A force consisting of both an electric component and a magnetic component, created by an electric current or moving electrical charge.
What is an Electromagnetic Force?
Mechanical Force to Electrical Current.
What are Generators?
Describes a molecule in which one or more atoms is slightly negative and one or more is slightly positive.
What is Polar?