Vocab
Magnetism
Electricity and Magnetism
Producing Electric Current
Random Trivia
100

This is a region surrounding a magnet that exerts a force on other magnets. 

What is a magnetic field?

100

Objects with magnetic properties is known as this.

What is Magnetite?

100

All moving charges will produce this.

What is a magnetic field?

100

Most of the electrical energy used every day is provided by these devices.

What is a generator?

100

In groups, these animals are known as a murder. 

What are crows?

200

This is the interaction between electric charges and magnets.

What is electromagnetism?

200

This is the reason why magnetic objects do NOT need direction interaction to have forces exerted on them.

What is they're in a magnetic field?

200

Magnetic field lines will create this shape around a current-carrying wire.

What is a circle?

200

This refers to a large wheel that rotates when pushed by steam, wind, or water and generates electrical energy.

What is a turbine?

200

This is the average number of bones a shark has in its body.

What is zero?

300

This is a cylindrical coil of wire that is used to produce a magnetic field when an electrical current passes through the wire. 

What is a solenoid?

300

These are examples of common magnetic materials.

What is Iron, Cobalt, and Nickel?

300

Electromagnetic fields can be increased by one of these two methods.


What is adding more wire to the solenoid OR increasing the current of the wire?

300
Most simple generators contain these parts.

What is a coil, mechanical input, and a permanent magnet?

300

This is the average diameter of a basketball hoop. 

What is 18 inches?

400

This is a current that reverses direction of flow in a regular pattern.

What is an alternating current?

400

Permanent magnets can lose their characteristics if this happens.

What is if the magnetic material is heated up?
400

These are the main parts of an electric motor.

What is a wire coil, a permanent magnet, and an electrical source?

400

This refers to a transformer that decreases voltage.

What is a step-down transformer?

400

This is known as the busiest airport in the world. (Over 100 million passengers annually)

What is Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport?

500

This refers to a device that uses electromagnetic induction to increase or decrease the voltage of an alternating current. 

What is a transformer?

500
A compass needle will ALWAYS point towards this direction.

What is Earth's south pole?

500

A coil in a simple motor will continue to rotate unless one of these two things happen.

What is the battery is removed OR its energy source is depleted?

500

Transformers will decrease the voltage to this amount for consumer use. 

What is 120V?

500

This book depicts Holden Caulfield, a teenage boy narrating his adventures in New York City. 

What is Catcher in the Rye?

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