Basics
What Happens?
Static v. Current
Draw the Following
100
This object allows electric current to flow easily through it.
What is a conductor?
100
A switch has been been put in the closed position in a circuit.
What is the circuit is complete.
100
This type of charge is what happens to a ballon when it is quickly rubbed against your hair.
What is a negative charge?
100
A complete Circuit.
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200
This material does not allow electricity to flow through it easily, and can convert electricity to heat and light energy.
What is a resistor.
200
In a series circuit, one of the light bulbs burns out.
What is the circuit is broken and all the light bulbs go out.
200
This type of electricity is allowed to work in circuits and allow appliances to run off of electric power.
What is current electricity?
200
A series circuit
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300
This type of material does not allow electricity to flow through it.
What is an insulator?
300
In a series circuit there are many light bulbs on. What happens to the light bulbs compared to a parallel circuit?
What is the light bulbs are dimmer than in a parallel circuit.
300
This type of electricity is a build up of charges. Examples can occur in a cloud or even in you.
What is static electricity?
300
Parallel Circuit
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400
This is occurs when you rub your hands together or apply the brakes on your bike or with a car.
What is friction?
400
In a parallel circuit one of the loops is broken.
What is the other lightbulbs or circuits are still working.
400
This is the reason why holding a golf club up into the air during a lightning storm would be a bad idea.
What is the golf club is a conductor and could allow lightning to travel from the cloud, to the golf club, through you, and into the ground.
400
A series circuit that does not allow a light bulb to light.
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500
This is a build up of charges that can then discharge very quickly to the opposite of the charge that has been built up.
What is static electricity?
500
If you where to build a home, this is the type of circuit you should use in your home.
What is a parallel circuit. Otherwise if one lightbulb would go out in your home or one switch was turned off all of the electricity of that circuit would be stopped.
500
Benjamin Franklin created this to stop fires that were destroying homes in Philadelphia.
What is the lightning rod?
500
A broken parallel circuit that uses two light bulbs, but allows one to light.
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