Electricity and Magnetism
Static Electricity
Solar and Tidal Energy
Atoms
Plasma
100
A magnet created using electricity.
What is an electromagnet?
100
When electric charges build up on an object.
What is static electricity?
100
Energy from the sun.
What is solar energy?
100
Tiny building blocks that make up everything.
What are atoms?
100
A charged gas.
What is plasma?
200
Iron and steel scrap.
What do huge electromagnets separate in recycling plants?
200
An electric discharge.
What is it called when static electricity leaves an object?
200
A Canadian province with many ideal locations for tidal power plants.
What is British Columbia?
200
The three different kinds of particles in an atom.
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?
200
A fourth state of matter.
What is plasma sometimes considered to be?
300
A communication device that contains electromagnets.
What is a telephone?
300
The transfer of static electric charges into the ground through a wire or metal rod.
What is grounding?
300
Mirrors.
What is used to focus sunlight on water at a solar-powered station?
300
The traveling particles in an atom.
What are electrons?
300
During the second world war.
When were plasma cutters first developed?
400
500 km/h.
How fast do maglev(magnetic levitation) trains travel?
400
"Not moving."
What does the word "static" mean?
400
Steam.
What powers the turbines in a solar-powered station?
400
An opposite charge.
What charge do things need to attract each other?
400
An inert gas.
What is suspended between two sheets of transistor covered glass in a plasma television screen?
500
About 2500 years ago.
How long ago were the magnetic properties of lodestones discovered?
500
A machine that uses static and is often found in schools.
What is a photocopier?
500
The location of the the world's second-largest power plant.
What is Nova Scotia?
500
It begins the flow of electrons.
What does friction do to atoms?
500
The ancient inuit.
Who first witnessed the northern lights?
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