Categorizing Mechanisms
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Circuit
Conductors and Insulators
Miscellaneous
100
Name an electrical device that would fall in the communicating category.
What is...?
100
Socks taken from a clothes dryer that stick together or a lightning bolt in the sky are examples of ____________.
What is static electricity?
100
Is a circuit open or closed if you haven't turned on the switch?
What is open?
100
What is a material that lets electric current pass through?
What is a conductor?
100
Electricity flow through a toaster is the movement of what?
What is electrons?
200
A desk lamp would fall under this category.
What is lighting?
200
Two bulbs are wired in series and the circuit is closed. What will you see?
Both bulbs are on.
200
What supplies current to an electrical circuit?
What is a battery (or other electrical source)?
200
What is a material that blocks an electric current from passing through?
What is an insulator?
200
What if there were no fuses in your home appliances?
Appliances would overheat and short circuit.
300
Name two things in your bedroom that are used for heating/cooling.
What is...?
300
You have a car that can only go forward. To make is reverse, what should you do?
Reverse the wires connected to the battery.
300
This is what type of circuit?
What is parallel?
300
Which of these materials is not a conductor: copper, aluminum, gold, or wood?
What is wood?
300
If the voltage of one battery is 2V, what is the voltage of 8 batteries connected in series?
What is 16V?
400
Name three items in the library that fall in the lighting category.
Lights, Projector, Computer
400
What is an advantage and disadvantage of wiring batteries in series?
Greater amount of power flowing through the circuit. Removal of any part stops the circuit.
400
What is series?
400
Which of these materials is a conductor: rubber, glass, air, silver?
What is silver?
400
When Mr. Hill moves a magnet through a coil of wire, what happens?
A flow of electricity is generated.
500
An Xbox One could fall under these categories.
What is all of them? (Cooling, Lighting, Communicating, Computing)
500
What is an advantage and disadvantage of wiring batteries in parallel?
Removing items from circuit does not effect flow of electrons. Total power is the same no matter the number of batteries.
500
If lamp 1 is removed, what will happen to the other lamps?
They will remain on.
500
Is a light switch a conductor, an insulator, or a resistor?
What is a conductor?
500
If you have batteries that each have 1.5V, and your total voltage is 18V, how many batteries do you have in your series circuit?
What is 12 batteries?