Static Electricity
This part of an atom carries a positive charge.
What is a proton?
A radio converts electricity into this kind of energy.
What is sound energy?
This is how electricity travels from a power station to our homes.
What are wires/power lines?
This is the name for electricity that is generated using water.
What is hydroelectricity?
This is Ontario's largest source of hydroelectricity.
What is Niagara Falls?
The nucleus of an atom contains these two things.
What are protons and neutrons.
A light bulb converts electricity into these 2 kinds of energy.
What are light energy and thermal/heat energy?
This is the name for materials that electricity can travel through easily.
What are conductors?
These are the things that spin to generate electricity.
What are turbines?
This type of power plant is in Pickering, Ontario (close to Ms. Farrow's house).
What is a nuclear power plant?
An object with a positive charge is attracted to an object with this kind of charge.
What is a negative charge?
A blender converts electricity into these 2 kinds of energy.
What are kinetic/movement energy and sound energy?
Power lines that deliver electricity to homes and businesses can be found in one of these two places.
What are above ground or below ground?
This kind of power plant creates heat by dividing the nuclei of uranium atoms.
What is a nuclear power plant?
This is the name for power from the sun.
What is solar?
When these move from one atom to another they change the atom's charge.
What are electrons?
A toaster converts electricity into these 3 kinds of energy.
What are heat/thermal, kinetic/movement and sound energy?
Rubber is an example of a ________ because electricity cannot travel through it.
What is an insulator?
What is a lot of pressure?
This natural form of static electricity causes 2-3 deaths in Canada each year.
What is lightning?
This is why static cling sometimes happens when we take clothes out of the dryer.
A computer converts electricity into these 3 kinds of energy.
What are heat, sound and light?
When we flip a light switch on this happens to the gap in the electrical pathway.
What is the gap closes/wires connect?
This turns the turbines in oil and coal power generating stations.
What is steam?
These 3 natural energy sources are nonrenewable.
What are natural gas, coal and oil?