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What makes up everything in the world?

Atoms

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What is the spot where you find electrons in an atom?

In a cloud outside the nucleus

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What kind of charge does an electron have?
A negative charge.
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What kind of charge does a neutron have?
A neutral charge.
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What what kind of charge does a proton have?
A positive charge.
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What are three subatomic particles?

Protons, neutrons, and electrons.

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What do unlike charges do?
Attract each other.
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What two charged parts attract each other?

Positive and negative.

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What is a charge?
A measure of the extra positive or negative partices that an object has.
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What do like charges do?
Repel each other.
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What is an example of a conductor?

Metal, water, etc

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What is an example of an insulator?

Rubber, wood, etc.

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What is a conductor?
A material that current can pass through easily.
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What is an insulator?

A material that current cannot pass through easily.

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What is a material that easily gives away and takes in electrons?

Conductor

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What is a resistor?
A material that slows or resists, but doesn't stop the flow of the current.
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What is an electric current?
The steady flow of electricity.
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What is a circuit?

A current that moves along a wire or path in a single direction

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What is electricity?

Form of energy (characterized by flow of electrons)

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What happens to current if voltage is the same and resistance increases?

Current decreases

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What (conductor or insulator) has a high resistance?

Insulator

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What does a higher voltage mean related to the difference between 2 points?

The points are farther apart.

500

Lightning strikes occur when ____________ charges at the ground attract negative charges at the bottom of a storm cloud.

Lightning strikes occur when POSITIVE charges at the ground attract negative charges at the bottom of a storm cloud.

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What is static electricity?
A charge that stays on an object.
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Electric current moves from ___________ voltage to ___________ voltage

Electric current moves from HIGHER voltage to LOWER voltage