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Electricity & Current
Circuits
Electric Current Vocabulary
Magnetism
Historical Contributors
100
Electricity is created when __________ jump from one atom to another atom.
What is electrons?
100
A circuit that has a break and no current.
What is an open circuit?
100
What is filament?
The wiring inside the bulb is called the...
100
A magnet would not be attracted to ________. (conductors or insulators)
What is insulators?
100
conducted a famous experiment where he flew a kite in a storm.
Who is 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
What is positive and negative ends on a battery?
Terminals are...
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
What is resistance?
____________ describes how difficult it is for the current to flow.
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
What is a rivet?
What is the bottom of a light bulb called?
400
The area on the magnet that the magnetic field is the greatest.
What is poles?
400
The inventor of the light bulb and the first power plant?
Who is Thomas Edison?
500
Electricity can be stored in a ____________.
What is a dry cell 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
What is the amount of energy per electron?
What is voltage?
500
If two magnet's north poles were placed beside each other, they would _________ each other.
What is repel?
500
This contributor determined that electricity can be made by moving a magnet in a coiled wire.
Who is Michael Faraday?