Shocking Vocabulary
Bits and Pieces
Static Studies
Circuit Central
Miscellaneous
100
a path that is made for an electric current
What is a circuit?
100
end on a magnet where the pull of the magnet is strongest
What is a magnetic pole?
100
the charge that stays on an object.
What is static electricity?
100
powered the circuits created in class.
What is battery?
100
a material that current cannot pass through easily.
What is an insulator?
200
an object that attracts certain materials, usually objects made of iron or steel
What is a magnet?
200
a measure of the extra positive or negative particles an object has.
What is a charge?
200
the space where electric forces occur around an object.
What is an electric field?
200
a circuit with only one path for the current
What is series circuit?
200
the strip of material that glows in a light bulb
What is a resistor?
300
the space around the magnet where the force of the magnet can act.
What is a magnetic field?
300
a material that current can pass through easily.
What is a conductor?
300
means "not moving".
What is static?
300
a circuit with more than one path for current to travel.
What is a parallel circuit?
300
the two poles of a magnet.
What is north and south?
400
supplies energy to move electric charges through a circuit.
What is an electric cell?
400
a material that resists but does not stop the flow of current.
What is a resistor?
400
charge an object has if it has the same amount of positive and negative charges.
What is neutral?
400
if one object is disconnected from the circuit the other continues working in this type of circuit.
What is parallel circuit?
400
Tiny bits of electricity in matter
What is electric charges?
500
a temporary magnet made by passing current through wire that is wrapped around an iron core.
What is an electromagnet?
500
a device that produces motion energy from electrical energy.
What is a motor?
500
the action between two objects with the same overall charge when put together.
What is repel?
500
if one bulb is removed from a series circuit the other bulbs will do this.
What is go out?
500
An example of static electricity in weather.
What is lightening?
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