a safety device in a electrical circuit; acts as a switch to cut off power to a circuit if the current exceeds a safe level.
What is circuit breaker?
100
the ability to do work by pushing electrons around a circuit.
What is electrical energy?
100
the percentage of energy converted into a useful form by a process or a device compared to the total amount of energy consumed.
What is efficiancy?
100
electrical energy generated by the mechanical energy of falling or flowing water.
What is hydroelectric?
100
a circuit that has only one path for current to travel.
What is series circuit?
200
the round prong of an electrical plug; allows excess current to flow from an electrical device to ground to prevent electrical shock.
What is grounding terminal?
200
the rate of change in electrical energy.
What is electrical power?
200
a Canadian goverment program that rates the energy consumption and effiency of heating, cooling, and ventilating equitment, new houses and vehicles, and household appliances.
What is EnerGuide?
200
unable to be replaced in a human life time.
What is non-renewable?
200
a measurement of how much electrical energy an electrical device comsumes for every second it is in use.
What is power rating?
300
a protectice mechanism in an electrical circuit; contains a metallic conductor strip that melts when excessive current passes through it, thus opening the circuit and stopping electron flow.
What is fuse?
300
the unit for measuring energy.
What is joule?
300
energy released by a nuclear reaction.
What is nuclear energy?
300
an electrical device that changes voltage.
What is transformer?
400
the location where a circle devides into multiple paths or where multiple paths combine.
What is junction point?
400
a measure of electrical energy; the product of power, in kilowatts, and time,in hours
What is kilowatt-hour?
400
able to be renewed or replaced within a human lifetime.
What is renewable?
400
a cylinder with blades or paddles; its rotation turns a coil of wire within a magnet to generate electricity.
What is turbine?
500
an electrical circuit that has more than one path.
What is parallel circuit?
500
the rate of change in energy; also the rate of which work is done or energy is transformed.
What is power?
500
heat energy produced from the burning of fossil fuels.
What is thermal energy?
500
a source of electric current made up of two electrodes and an electrolyte and requiring a constant external supply of food.