Vocabulary
Power Up Materials
Investigation 1
Investigation 2
Investigation 3 & 4
100
Two magnets pulling toward or "sticking" to one another.
What is attract?
100
This device is used to open or close a circuit.
What is a switch?
100
When two magnets push apart.
What is repel?
100
The part of a bulb that produces light when it gets hot.
What is a filament?
100
When two lightbuls lit dimly, this type of circuit was created.
What is a series circuit?
200
This is between two magnets that you cannot see or touch, but can feel and experience.
What is force?
200
This is the source of the energy used during our investigations, another name for it is a "battery".
What is a D-Cell?
200
When two magnets come together.
What is attract?
200
A way to represent a circuit on a piece of paper.
What is a schematic drawing?
200
Parallel circuits allowed this to happen to the light bulbs.
What is light up brighter?
300
A circuit through which electricity flows.
What is a closed circuit?
300
This type of magnet was pushed into the balances when we were trying to break the force.
What is a magnet on a post or magnet on a stick?
300
Magnets "stick" to things with this ingredient.
What is iron?
300
You were able to make these two materials work with a closed circuit.
What is a light bulb and motor?
300
One part of a circuit system is called this.
What is a component?
400
This becomes a magnet when electricity flows through the wire that's tightly wrapped around a core.
What is an electromagnet?
400
These clips are found all throughout the circuit bases, D-Cell holders, and lightbulb holders.
What is a fahnstock clip?
400
A piece of iron that behaves like a magnet when it is touching a permanent magnet.
What is a temporary magnet?
400
Items in your mystery bag that acted as conductors were all made of this kind of material.
What is metal?
400
Wire wound repeatedly around a central core.
What is a coil?
500
An energy that is not able to be created, once it is gone, it is gone.
What is non-renewable energy?
500
This tool was used to wrap wire around the tip when making an electromagnet.
What is a rivet?
500
A kind of temporary magnetism is called...... (think of a permanent magnet with a paperclip "sticking" and another paperclip "sticking to THAT paperclip!)
What is induced magnetism?
500
Name two ways of producing energy.
What is (various answers)?
500
To make an electromagnet stronger you can do one of these.
What is wind the coil tighter, add more winds to the coil, or use heavier/thicker wire?
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