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Vocabulary
Circuits
conductors & insulators
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Mixed Bag
100
a form of energy resulting from the existence of charged particles
What is Electricity?
100
the type of circuit that when one bulb goes out all the other bulbs in the circuit go out too
What is a series circuit?
100
a material that allows electrons to move through it
What is a conductor?
100
an electrical component or portion of a circuit that consumes electric power
What is a load?
100
a device that opens and closes a circuit
What is a switch?
200
the path that electrons follow
What is a circuit?
200
a circuit in which electrons have only one path to follow
What is a series circuit?
200
a material that does not allow electricity to move through it
What is an insulator?
200
The thin metal wire in a light bulb that conducts electricity, gets hot and emits light.
What is the filament?
200
a particle with a negative charge
What is an electron?
300
a safety device consisting of a strip of wire that melts and breaks an electric circuit if the current exceeds a safe level
What is a fuse?
300
A problem created when current flows too fast in a circuit that contains little or no resistance.
What is a short circuit?
300
wooden chopsticks, rubber erasers, and wax candles
What are examples of insulators?
300
A device that produces light by passing an electric current through a wire
What is a light bulb?
300
electrons move through a battery from the ___________ terminal to the ___________ terminal
What is negative to positive?
400
when a conductor blocks the movement of electrons
What is resistance?
400
wiring in which there is more than one path for the electrons to follow
What is a parallel circuit?
400
Copper is a good...
What is a conductor?
400
In a light bulb -- the ceramic insulator and glass bulb
What are insulators?
400
A movement of electricity by electrons, usually along a wire
What is an electric current?
500
A container where chemical energy is converted into electricity
What is a battery?
500
A path of electric current with almost no resistance that can create dangerous levels of heat in the rest of the circuit, potentially causing a fire.
What is a short circuit?
500
anything made of metal
What is a good conductor of electricity?
500
The metal tip, wire attachment point, support wire, and filament in a light bulb.
What are conductors?
500
A unit of measurement of an electric current
What is an ampere?