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Vocabulary
Types and Circuits
Electricity and Magnets
Atoms
Uses of Electricity
100
This is the smallest building block of matter.
What is an atom?
100
This is what oppositely charged objects do.
What is attract?
100
This is a temporary magnet caused by an electric current.
What is an electromagnet?
100
This is the charge of a proton.
What is positive?
100
This is an example of how electricity can be converted into heat.
What is a heater, curling iron, blow dryer, etc.?
200
This is a path that has more than one way for electric current to flow.
What is parallel circuit?
200
This is what causes you to experience a "shock" as well as what causes lightning.
What is static electricity?
200
These are the items you need in order to build your own electromagnet.
What is a battery, coil of wire, and piece of metal such as a nail or screw?
200
This is the charge of a neutron.
What is neutral?
200
This is an example of how electricity can be converted into light.
What is a lamp, light bulb, television, computer, etc.?
300
This part of an atom has a negative charge.
What is an electron?
300
This is a circuit that only has one path for the current to follow.
What is series circuit?
300
This is a machine that produces electric current.
What is a generator?
300
This is the charge of an electron.
What is negative?
300
This is an example of how electricity can be converted into mechanical energy.
What is a motor, fan, blender, computer, etc.?
400
This is a material that does not allow electic current through easily.
What is an insulator?
400
Salt water, copper wire, and most metals are examples of this.
What is a conductor?
400
This is what gererators need in order to produce electric current (two things- must answer both)
What is a coil of wire and a magnet?
400
This is where the protons and neutrons are located.
What is the nucleus?
400
These are examples of things that have chemical energy (at least two).
What is coal, oil, and natural gas?
500
A stream of electrons moving through a copper wire would be this.
What is current electricity?
500
What you switch off a lamp, you do this to the circuit.
What is open?
500
This is what happens when you put like poles next to one another.
What is repel?
500
This is what the electrons of an atom do.
What is orbitting the nucleus?
500
Turning the TV off when you're not watching it, taking shorter showers, turning of the lights, and car pooling are examples of ways to help do this.
What are ways to conserve energy?