Watt's Up?
This type of heat movement happens in liquids and gases.
What is convection?
A material that lets heat or electricity move easily through it.
What is a conductor?
This type of heat movement can happen through empty space/without matter. (Heat from the Sun reaches Earth this way.)
What is radiation?
A material that does not let heat or electricity move easily through it.
What is an insulator?
The circular flow of water or air due to heating.
What is a convection current?
The charge of an electron, which is an orbiting particle of an atom.
What is negative?
The charge of a proton, which is a particle of an atom in its nucleus.
What is positive?
The measure of the force or pressure of an electric current.
What is a volt?
This type of heat movement happens mostly in solids and in objects that are touching.
What is conduction?
The measure of how much work electricity can do per second.
What is a watt?
The measure of the amount of electric current or the amount of electricity used. Every circuit has a certain amount of electricity it can safely handle, which is measured in this unit.
What is an amp?
A temporary magnet that is made by passing an electric current through an iron object.
What is an electromagnet?
A circuit that has more than one path for electricity to flow, such as when a bedroom lamp is turned off by a switch, but the hallway light stays on.
What is a parallel circuit?
A device that turns mechanical energy into electrical energy.
What is a generator?
Heat moves in this way, when cold is present.
What is from hot to cold?
Type of metal most often used to conduct electricity.
What is copper?
The relationship between electricity and magnets.
What is electromagnetism?
A path where electricity can flow.
What is an electric circuit?
Most heat in a home is lost through these.
What are windows?
A light switch that turns on a lamp is this type circuit. (Choose open or closed circuit)
What is a closed circuit?
A blender converts electrical energy into mechanical energy because it has this.
What is a motor?
Rubber is a good one of these for electric circuits.
What is an insulator?
This happens to an electromagnet when the circuit becomes open.
What is it loses its magnetic properties/magnetism?
In an electric current, these kinds of particles flow or are pushed along a path.
What are negative particles/electrons?
A circuit that has only one path for electricity to flow, such as when one light goes out in a strand of Christmas lights, and all the lights go out.
What is a series circuit?