Circuits
Type of circuit with only one pathway.
What is a series circuit?
Electrical force between two charges that are not moving. Commonly found on the surface.
What is static electricity?
This lowers the amount of energy flowing through a device
What is a resistor?
The difference between parallel and series circuits.
What is parallel circuit has more than one pathway and a series circuit has only one pathway.
Kind of circuit that a disconnected wire can halt the flow of electricity.
What is an open circuit?
A device used to generate electricity.
What is a generator?
The amount of electric potential energy per unit charge called in a batter.
What is voltage?
The abbreviation for current that flows in one direction
What is DC?
Movement and transfer of the energy of charged particles.
What is electricity?
A type of circuit in which energy travels through conductors in a complete path.
What is a closed circuit?
A continuous flow of electric charge through a pathway.
What is an electric current?
Three ways to produce electrical energy.
What is harnessing wind energy, building dams or nuclear power plants, burn fossil fuels, or rubbing items together?
The abbreviation for currents that move back and forth at regular intervals.
What is AC?
The source of geothermal heat.
What is the Earth?
Type of circuit with more than one pathway.
What is a parallel circuit?
What would happen if the path between the battery and first light bulb in a series circuit is interrupted.
What is the fact that none of the light bulbs would light up.
Electrons move through _____________ in a circuit.
What are conductors?
The electric device you are trying to power.
What is a receiver?
splitting atoms, production of heat, steam, turning turbines, drives generators
What is the process of a nuclear power plant?
A movable section of a circuit that can open or close a path for electricity.
What is a switch?
The most common part of any electrical generation system.
What is steam? What is turning of a turbine?
The kind of mechanical energy that is stored in a battery
What is potential chemical energy?
The parts that connect a circuit together.
What is the wire?
Styrofoam is an example of this in an electrical circuit.
What is a resistor?