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Electric Charges and their movement
Static Electricity
Going With the Flow
Circuits and Such!
Magnets & Vocabulary
100
The tiny building blocks of everything
What are atoms?
100
Particles moving between atoms in storm clouds become this.
What is charged?
100
This subatomic particle flows through the wire when an electric field is present.
What is an electron
100
This is the object that closes and opens the current in a circuit.
What is a switch.
100
This is a measure of the amount of electrical energy transferred by an electric charge as it moves from one point to another in a circuit.
What is voltage!
200
The same number of positive particles as negative particles. (charge)
What is neutral?
200
The ______ particles in storm clouds tend to gather at the top of the cloud while the ________ particles tend to gather at the bottom of the cloud.
What is positive and negative?
200
this is a path in which electric charges can flow.
What is an electric circuit.
200

This is the SI unit of electric current.

What is A or Amps

200

Every magnet has two of these!

What are magnetic poles

300

When the positive and negative charges no longer balance. This is when negative charges are built up much more than positive.

What is static electricity?

300

This is a movement of a static charge from one place to another

What is static discharge

300
Name things (2) that electrons flow easily through. Examples
What is wire, metal poles, anything metal.
300

The type of magnetic mineral found in nature.

 Magnetite. Another is a lodestone 

300
This is a current carrying wire wrapped around an iron core
What is electromagnet
400
An electric charge in motion. (electrons in motion)
What is an electric current?
400
This is an imbalance of electric charge (-) on an object
What is static charge
400
Name at least 2 things that could slow the flow of electrons in a circuit.
wood plastic rubber
400
In this circuit, devices are connected so there is only 1 closed path for current to follow.
What is series
400
Explain how you could make the magnetic force between two magnets weaker and stronger.
What is pull them closer and farther apart.
500
When there is a break in a circuit. It can be called a _________ circuit.
What is an open circuit?
500
These are the two ways an object can be charged.
What is charging by contact & charging by indcution
500
Electrons flow from the ______ terminal to the ________ terminal. (think about a battery)
What is negative to positive.
500

This is a circuit where there is more than one close path for a current to follow.

What is parallel

500
The production of an electric current by moving a magnet and a loop relative to each other is called this.
What is electromagnetic induction