Energy
The type of energy that is stored
What is potential energy?
A form of energy where charges build up in one location.
What is static electricity?
The "official" term for the wires in an electric circuit
What are conductors?
Using the analogy of a waterfall, this is most similar to the height of the waterfall
What is voltage?
The name for more than one cell put together
What is battery?
An electrical device with low efficiency is most likely producing this type of waste
What is thermal energy?
What causes one object to gain electrons and another to lose electrons when they are brought together
What is friction?
If a circuit is correctly put together, a load will not operate if the circuit is
What is open?
This is measured using an ammeter
What is current?
This type of cell/battery can be recharged like your phone battery
What is secondary?
In a battery powered flashlight, (a) energy is converted into (b) energy and then into (c) energy
What is
(a) chemical (b) electrical (c) light
The rapid transfer of electric charge from one object to another
What is electric discharge?
The type of circuit if one bulb blows they all go out
What is series?
This device is used to slow the current of electricity
What is a resistor?
This device uses friction to produce a static charge.
What is a Van de Graff generator?
The amount of electrical energy that is transformed into useful energy of another kind
What is efficiency?
The largest form of static electricity
What is lightening?
The type of circuit where all loads get the same flow of electrons
What is parallel?
This is the unit for measuring resistance.
What is ohm?
A safety feature in homes that has a metal strip that melts when too much electricity passes through it
What is a fuse?
The type of energy created from decomposing food and materials from gardening and agriculture
What is biomass?
The object that gets struck by lightning the most in Canada
What is the CN Tower (in Toronto)?
Comparing circuits to a traffic model, the circuit component most similar to the traffic lights
What is a switch?
The resistance of a material will ___ when you have a wire with a wider diameter and shorter length
What is decrease?
These devices (2) both use magnets and a rotating wire
What is a motor and a generator?