Electron Movement
The building blocks of everything
What are atoms?
The man who used a frog's leg muscle in his electricity experiments
Who is Luigi Galvani
This subatomic particle flows through the wire when an electric field is present
What is an electron?
The thing that closes and opens the current in a circuit
What is a switch?
When there are the same number of positive particles as negative particles
What is neutral?
Alessandro Volta used saltwater in bowls connected with copper and zinc metal. This led the invention of the
What is the Voltaic cell or battery?
The path in which electric charges can flow
What is a circuit?
The unit of electric current
What is V or voltage?
Electric current move easily through these
What are conductors?
When the positive and negative charges no longer balance and the negative charges are built up much more than positive
What is static electricity?
The inventor who created the Menlo Park Lab in New Jersey to encourage innovation
Who is Thomas Edison?
Name things (2) that electrons flow easily through. (Examples)
What is wire, metal poles, anything metal?
Factors that affect the strength of electric forces (Name at least 2)
What are resistance, amount of electricity, number of bulbs/output sources.....
Energy sources that can be used over and over and never used up.
What are non-renewable resources such as hydroelectricity, solar energy, and wind power?
An electric charge in motion (electrons in motion usually in a wire)
What is an electric current?
Name at least 2 things that could slow the flow of electrons in a circuit
What are insulators like wood, plastic, and rubber?
In this circuit, devices are connected so there is only 1 closed path for current to follow
What is a series circuit?
A current carrying wire wrapped around an iron core is called
What is an electromagnet
Electric currents are surrounded by these
What are electric fields?
The man who invented the telephone was
Who was Alexander Graham Bell?
Bonus: What words were the first to be spoken on the first long distance call?
This is a circuit where there is more than one closed paths for a current to follow
What is parallel?
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