Electricity Vocab
The continuous flow of electrons through an object.
What is electric current?
Any material that attracts iron and materials that contain iron.
What is a magnet?
This particle has a negative charge.
What is an electron?
A North pole when it gets close to a South pole.
What is attract?
When objects rub against each other to gain a charge.
What is friction?
A material in which electricity (electrons) CAN easily flow.
What is a conductor?
The term for when the poles push apart.
What is repel?
This particle has a positive charge.
What is a proton?
A North pole when it gets close to another North pole.
What is repel?
When objects are charged by touch.
What is conduction?
A material in which electricity CANNOT easily flow.
What is an insulator?
The term for when the poles come together.
What is attract?
A buildup of charges on an object.
What is static electricity?
Where the magnetic force is strongest on a magnet.
What is the pole?
When objects are charged when they get close to each other.
What is induction?
A circuit with only ONE path/ loop for electricity to flow through.
What is a series circuit?
They are invisible, but prove a magnetic field exists.
What are magnetic field lines?
This particle cannot leave the atom.
What is a proton?
They are closest together at the poles.
What are magnetic field lines?
The circuit must be _____ for electricity to flow.
What is CLOSED?
A circuit with multiple paths/ loops for electricity to flow through.
What is a parallel circuit?
The strength of this depends on the amount of the charge and the distance between the charges.
What is the electric force?
Something that USES the electricity (example: light bulb).
What is a RESISTOR?