Vocabulary
Circuits
Electricity
Uses of Electricity
100
A form of energy that can travel through space. It can also pass through some types of matter.
What is light energy?
100
A continuous path through which electricity can travel from the cell to a device that uses electricity.
What is a closed circuit?
100
The flow of an electrical charge as evidenced in lightning, static electricity, and the use of lights and appliances in the home.
What is electricity?
100
A path along which electric charges can flow.
What is an electric circuit?
200
Energy caused by the movement of electric charges.
What is electrical energy?
200
A circuit with a break or opening in the path through which the electricity travels from the cell to a device that uses electricity.
What is an open circuit?
200

A material that readily allows electric charges to pass through is called a __________.

What is a conductor?

200
True or false: Electricity can produce heat.
What is true?
300
The total energy of motion and position of an object. Also known as kinetic energy + potential energy.
What is mechanical energy?
300
True or false: Rubber gloves are conductors
What is false?
300
The measure of opposition of an electric current.
What is resistance?
300
This type of circuit has only one path for electric charges to follow.
What is a series circuit?
400
To move with a continual change of place.
What is flow?
400
When electric charges have a path to follow, the move in a steady flow called an ____________.
What is an electric current?
400
A material that resists the flow of electric charge is called an __________.
What is an insulator?
400
This type of circuit has several different paths for electric charges to follow.
What is a parallel circuit?
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