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Vocabulary
Static Electricity
Electric Current
Magnets
100
A material that electric charges can flow through easily.
What is a conductor?
100
Electric charges that build up on a material.
What is static electricity?
100
These control and direct electric flow.
What are conductors and insulators?
100
A property of all magnets.
What is magnetism?
200
This type of circuit's parts are connected in just one pathway.
What is a series circuit?
200
Matter that has the same number of positive and negative charges.
What is electrically neutral?
200
A device used to open and close a circuit without disconnecting the wires.
What is a switch?
200
The strongest magnetic part of a magnet.
What are its poles?
300
The pathway that an electric current follows.
What is an electric circuit?
300
Two objects with like charges. + + + - - + + + - + - +
What is repel?
300
A circuit where the parts are connected in more than one pathway.
What is a parallel circuit?
300
When you place a north pole of a magnet near a south pole of a second magnet.
What is attract?
400
A device that uses magnetism to convert energy of motion into electrical energy.
What is a generator?
400
The release of the build-up of negative charges.
What is electric discharge?
400
The difference between a series circuit and a parallel circuit.
What is one pathway (series) versus more than one pathway (parallel?
400
What happens when you bring the like poles of two magnets near each other.
What is repel?
500
A device that changes chemical energy into mechanical energy.
What is an electric cell?
500
The conclusion about the charges when a balloon sticks to a wall after rubbing it with a wool cloth.
What is unlike?
500
A working circuit has at least three parts.
What is a power source, a conductor, and an object that uses electric current?
500
What happens to a bar magnet when it is allowed to swing freely.
What is point north?