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Electricity & Current
Circuits
Static Electricity
Magnetism
Historical Contributors
100

Electricity is created when __________ jump from one atom to another atom.

electrons

100

A circuit that has a break and no current.

What is an open circuit

100
rubbing two objects together creates _________ electricity.
What is static?
100
A magnet would not be attracted to ________. (conductors or insulators)
What is insulators?
100

What scientist/inventor conducted a famous experiment where he flew a kite in a storm.

A. Isacc Newton 

B. Bill Nye 

C. Benjamin Franklin

Who is C. 

Benjamin Franklin

200

A continuous flow of electrons.

What is electric current

200

A circuit that has only one pathway for electricity to flow.

What is a series circuit

200
Static electricity is created by ______. (it is a type of force)
What is friction?
200

If the north pole of a magnet were close to the south pole of another magnet, the magnets would ________ each other.

What is attract

200

Thomas Edison invented the _______ that lights our houses today.

What is light bulb?

300

A material that does not allow electricity to flow through it. An example would be a rubber eraser.

What is an insulator

300

A circuit that allows the movement of electrical energy.

What is a closed circuit

300
When two balloons are rubbed with cloths and then held by a string close to each other, the balloons will repel each other, why?
because similar charges repel.
300

A temporary magnet that is created by an electric current with the wire wrapped around a nail.

What is an electromagnet

300

Benjamin Franklin experimented with a kite to determine that ____________ is electricity.

What is lightning?

400

A material that allows electricity to flow through it. An example would be a nail.

What is a conductor

400

A circuit that has more than one pathway for electricity to flow.

What is a parallel circuit

400

Lightning is ___________ from the atmosphere as a result of static electricity.

A. discharge 

B. upcharge 

What is a.

discharge

400

The area on the magnet that the magnetic field is the greatest.

The poles

400
The inventor of the light bulb and the first power plant?
Who is Thomas Edison?
500

Electricity can be stored in a ____________.

battery

500

If a bulb was removed from this type of circuit, the other bulbs in the circuit would glow brighter.

What is a parallel circuit

500

Discharge is often in the form of a _______ when you rub your feet across the ground and then touch something.

What is a spark?

500
If two magnet's north poles were placed beside each other, they would _________ each other.
What is repel?
500

It took many times for Thomas Edison to create a working light bulb. How many times did he fail before he succeed? 

A. about 10 attempts 

B. Took him more than 1,000 attempts 

C. He invented it on his first try

B. Took him more than 1,000 attempts before he succeeded!