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Electricity
Magnetism
Circuits
Vocabulary
This and That
100
This is the flow of electric charge through a circuit.
What is current?
100
This is a tool that uses a magnetic needle to indicate what direction you are going.
What is a compass?
100
This is the wire in a circuit.
What is a path?
100
This is the ability to do work or cause change.
What is energy?
100
This is what happens when a hot substance and a cold substance are combined.
What is the heat transfers to the colder substance?
200
These are the three parts you need for a circuit.
What is a load, a source, and a path?
200
This is when two opposite charges come together. They ______.
What is attract?
200
This is the battery in a circuit.
What is the source or power source?
200
This is an item like an iron nail that completes a circuit.
What is a conductor?
200
The closer the materials are to a magnet, the __________ the attraction.
What is stronger the attraction?
300
This opens and closes an electric circuit.
What is a switch?
300
This is when two like charges push away from each other.
What is repel?
300
This is what is being powered by the electricity in the circuit.
What is the load?
300
This is an item like plastic or rubber that does not allow a circuit to continue. The electricity stops flowing.
What is an insulator?
300
The farther away the materials are from the magnet, the _________ the attraction.
What is less the attraction?
400
Heat can be produced by ________.
What is burning, rubbing, or electricity?
400
This is the place on a magnet where the magnetic effect is the strongest. (Think of the iron shavings in the videos.)
What is the poles?
400
This is the complete path for electricity to travel through. The switch is down.
What is a closed circuit?
400
This measures temperature and a change in energy.
What is a thermometer?
400
This is the rubbing of surfaces. We created this when we rubbed our hands together.
What is friction?
500
This is a weather-related form of electricity.
What is lightning?
500
These are three types of metal that are magnetic-- cobalt, nickel, and __________.
What is iron?
500
This is a circuit with a break in it and does not allow the electricity to flow through it.
What is an open circuit?
500
These are the two scales used in temperature on a thermometer?
What is Celsius and Fahrenheit?
500
This is naturally occurring electricity. You can create it when you shuffle across the carpet and ZAP a friend!
What is static electricity?