Getting Started
Current electricity is the flow of electrons around a ___.
What is a circuit?
There are three types of electrical charges. Name two.
What are neutral, positive, and negative?
Name a common household item that has a resistor.
What is a toaster, light bulb, electric oven or stove top, etc.
This is the direction of the flow of electrons through an electrical circuit with a dry cell.
What is out of the negative terminal into the positive terminal?
This is the name of Mrs. G's dog.
What is Frank?
This is a type of electricity found in lightening.
What is static electricity?
Objects that have a negative charge have gained these.
What are electrons?
This opens and closes a circuit safely to control illumination.
What is a light switch?
This type of circuit has multiple paths for the flow of electricity.
What is a parallel circuit?
Name two of Mrs. G's chickens.
What are Lady Hawk, Nugget, Myrtle, Buffy, B.J. (or Buffy Jr.), Chick-a-rella, Lavender, Pearl, and Mr. Rogers (or Leroy)?
This slows the flow of electrons in a circuit.
What is a resistor?
This type of material does not allow electricity to flow through it.
What is an insulator?
This is the type of battery found in a flashlight or a remote control.
What is a dry cell?
This is a conductor that can be moved to open or close a circuit.
What is a switch?
This is the color of Pastor Mark's car.
What is black?
He invented the electric light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This type of material allows electricity to flow through it.
What is a conductor?
This is the type of battery found in a car.
What is a wet cell?
This is in the paste-like zinc substance in the dry cell that conducts electricity.
What are electrolytes? (NOT electrons)
Recite the memory verse for the week, without looking.
A battery uses this to produce an electrical current.
What is a chemical reaction?
Name a device that helps prevent a short circuit.
What is a fuse or circuit breaker?
This is the measurement of the amount of electrical push in a circuit.
What are volts?
The measurement of power.
What are watts?
List ALL the countries in North America.