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How fast can electrons move？
About the speed of light
What do photocopiers use to copy documents?
Static electricity.
Who investigated lightning in his most famous experiment?
Benjamin Franklin
True or False: Electricity can travel through metal wires?
False.
Where is the safest place to shelter during an electric storm？
A car.
What is the name of the particle given out by electrons as they lose energy and slow down?
Photon
True of false: Electricity can always find the quickest route to the ground?
True.
Who invented an electrical generator?
Robert Ven de Graf
Is the North Magnetic Pole near the South Pole or the North Pole?
The South Pole
What happens when you hold an electrified object?
Your muscles squeeze and can't let go and you probably die a horrible death.
What charge does an electron have？
Negtive charge.
Give one example of animal that can make electicity
Shark, honey bee, rattlesnake, eel and others.
What magnetic mystery did William Gilbert solve while playing with his compass?
The earth is magnetic.
What is the record number of times a person has been struck by lightning?
93
Give an example of how Magnetism stores information in computers.
Floppy disk or hard disk.
What forms when lots of electrons flow together in a kind of stream?
Electric current.
How does the Electricity flow?
From negatively charged areas to positively charged areas.
Who made the first electrical motor?
Michael Faraday
Where is the biggest power cut in history?
East of USA and Canada.
What is the best conductor for passing an electric current between metals?
Salty water
How many times smaller is an electron than the nucleus?
1,000,000,000,000(one thousand billion)
What does the earth's magnet filed do?
It helps the animal and human survive the sun storm.
In 1995, who stuck magnets on to the bird heads of bobolinks to test how magnetism affects them?
Robert Beason
How many times has the direction of the magnetic force fliped in the last 4,600 million years?
300 times.
What is the static electricity?
A form of electricity in which electrons are transferred from one thing to another, changing the electrical charge of each.