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How Does Electricity Move?
How is Electricity Used in the Home?
What Produces Electricity?
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
Electrons leave this terminal of a battery.
What is negative.
100
A gap in a circuit is opened or closed with this.
What is a switch?
100
Electric companies base their bills on the use of these.
What is kilowatt-hours?
100
This unit is used to measure how fast electrical energy is used.
What is watt?
100
Like charges do this.
What is repel?
200
An atom having more protons than electrons has this charge.
What is positive?
200
This happens to the metal in a fuse when the current gets too great.
What is melts?
200
True or False. A generator is used to change nuclear energy into mechanical energy.
What is False?
200
The steady flow of electric charges, usually in a wire, is called this.
What is electric current?
200
5 kilowatts is equal to this number of watts.
What is 5,000 watts?
300
Giant sparks of moving electrons are called this.
What is lightning?
300
Regular household current uses this voltage.
What is 110 volts?
300
A generator uses a coil of wire, a drive shaft and this.
What is a strong magnet?
300
This device uses a magnet to change mechanical energy into electrical energy.
What is a generator?
300
Metal is a good electrical_____________.
What is conductor?
400
The part of the atom that can rub off from one atom to another is this.
What is electron?
400
Electric stoves use this voltage of electricity.
What is 220 volts?
400
The magnet in a generator is turned by this.
What is drive shaft?
400
A unit used to measure how strongly the electrons in a wire are pushed is this.
What is volt?
400
Plastic is a good electrical _______________.
What is insulator?
500
An atom with a positive charge has extra of these.
What is protons?
500
In an electric current, electricity flows in this way.
What is steadily?
500
When electricity flows through a wire, this happens to the wire.
What is it becomes magnetic?
500
This safety device will prevent shocks by instantly switching off in dangerous situations.
What is Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI) outlets?
500
In a battery, this type of energy is changed into electrical energy.
What is chemical energy?