Electricity & Current
A device for turning an electric current on or off.
What is a switch?
A circuit that is not complete and therefore has no current.
What is an open circuit?
A _________ is created when electricity is used to create a magnetic field.
What is an electromagnet?
What is a sloth?
A circuit that is complete and allows the movement of electrical energy.
What is a closed circuit?
A battery, wires, and _________ are needed to make an electromagnet
What is a conductor (or nail specifically)?
The event that we have every fall to raise money for our school. We walk around the school and celebrate.
What is March-A-Thon?
A material that allows electricity to flow through it. An example would be a piece of metal.
What is a conductor?
A circuit that has only one pathway for electricity to flow. If a bulb goes out in this circuit, all of the bulbs go out.
What is a series circuit?
When we increase the amount of batteries in an electromagnet, the magnetic field ____________.
What is increases?
The place in the back of the room that allows you to take a break and return to the "green zone"
What is the Peace Corner?
A flow of electricity.
What is a current?
A circuit that has more than one pathway for electricity to flow. If one bulb goes out in this circuit, the other bulbs stay on.
What is a parallel circuit?
When we increase the amount of coils (wraps around the nail) in an electromagnet, the magnetic field _____________ .
What is increases?
What are the Zones of Regulation?
A particle of matter that has a negative electrical charge and travels around the nucleus of an atom.
What is an electron?
When adding bulbs to this circuit, the remaining bulbs go dimmer and dimmer.
What is a series circuit?
Examples of jobs that could use electromagnets.
What are robotic engineers, auto mechanics, MRI technicians, electricians, .. etc.
_________ is the best part of 4th grade.
There are endless answers for this one ;)