Transferring Electricity
A good electric conductor
What is copper?
The worst outcome of an electric shock
What is death?
One of the Founding Fathers, a writer, scientist, and political philosopher (among other things)
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
What is AC and DC?
An unbalanced negative or positive electric charge on an object
What is static charge?
Good electric insulator found in trees
What is wood?
About how many people die from electric shock each year
What is about 500 people?
Serbian-American inventor, engineer, and futurist known for his AC electricity system
Who is Nikola Tesla?
Benjamin Franklin's invention which used grounded metal rods to safely divert lightning strikes away from buildings
What is the lightning rod?
The process of an unbalanced electric charge becoming balanced
What is electric discharge?
When electrons concentrate at one end of an object
What is polarized?
You must be ___ to get an electric shock
What is grounded?
Discovered the mathematical relationship between voltage, current, and resistance (Ohm's Law)
Who is Georg Simon Ohm?
The voltaic pile invented by Alessandro Volta which used zinc, copper, and wet cardboard or cloth to make a continuous electric current is also commonly known as the ____
What is Electric Battery?
Providing a path for electric charges to flow safely to the ground
What is grounding?
An article of clothing that holds electrons loosely
What is a wool sweater?
Any more than ___ amount of A can cause death
What is 0.1 A?
American inventor and business man known for his DC electricity system/grid
Who is Thomas Edison?
Invented by Thomas Edison in 1879, this invention lit up rooms and such for a long amount of time without using kerosene
What is the iridescent light bulb?
A mathematical equation that describes the relationships among voltage, current, and resistance
What is Ohm's law?
Electrons transfer between objects in three ways
These three devices (in one way or another) cut an electric current to prevent electric shocks, fires, etc.
What are fuses, circuit breakers, and GFCI devices?
Invented the electric battery and the electric volt is named after him
Who is Alessandro Volta?
After Michael Faraday discovered electromagnetic induction he created this to create electric currents using motion
What is the electric generator?
An electric circuit with more than one path, or branch, for an electric current to follow
What is a parallel circuit?