Electric Charges
Movement of Charges
Simple Circuits
Complex Circuits
Everything Else
100
Has a postive charge
What is a proton
100
Materials through which an electric charge can move easily
What is a conductor?
100
Looped path that electic charges move in
What is a circuit?
100
Circuit that has more that one branch or pathway
What is parallel circuit?
100
Map of a circuit
What is a circuit diagram?
200
Has a negative charge
What is an electron?
200
A material that slows the flow of an electric current
What is a resistor?
200
Opens or closes the gap in the circuit, turns on and off the circuit
What is a switch?
200
Every electrical current produces this
What is a magnetic force?
200
Circuits that have more than one resistor on a wire
What is series circuit?
300
Force when objects push apart
What is like charges repel?
300
A material that almost stops the flow of an electric charge- keeps the flow inside the pathway
What is an insulator?
300
Moving of electric charges within a circuit
What is electric energy?
300
Ways to make electromagnets stronger
What is number of coils are increased, if the current is increased, or placing a metal bar beside the coils?
300
Tips to avoid an electrical shock
What is pull the plug not the cord, keep electrical items from water, stay away from down power lines.
400
Items pulling together
What is opposites attract?
400
Good conductors - such as copper, gold, silver and aluminum
What are metals?
400
A simple circuit must contain this
What is a source of energy and at least one conductor?
400
Has a complicated circuit - millions of paths and resistors are on small chips
What is a computer?
400
Has a north and south pole
What is a regular magnet and electromagnet?
500
Flow of electrical charges through a material
What is a current?
500
Material that has no resistance to electrical current - usually only happens at super-cold temperatures.
What is a superconductor?
500
Examples of a resistor that transforms electrical enery to another type of energy
What is a bell or buzzer (sound energy) or light bulb (light energy)?
500
Place where current splits apart on a circuit
What is a branch point?
500
Strength can be quickly changed
What is an electromagnet?
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