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Electric Charges and their movement
Static Electricity
Going With the Flow
Electricity
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

Socks taken from a clothes dryer that stick together or a lightning bolt in the sky are examples of ____________.

What is Static Electricity?

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 V or voltage
200
Every magnet has two of these!
What are magnetic poles
300

An electromagnet is made up of what three items?

What is an iron bar (nail), battery, and a wire?

300
This is a movement of a static charge from from 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

True or False: Like charges attract and unlike charges repel.

False.

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.

What is wood, plastic or rubber?

400

If you rub your hair on a balloon and the balloon becomes negatively charged, what charge will your hair have?

What is positive charge?

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

What is a material that lets electric current pass through?

What is a conductor?

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