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Electricity
Sources of Electricity
Circuits
100
What is electricity?
A form of energy
100
What is static electricity?
Static charges leaping from one object to another.
100
What is a circuit?
A path that electricity travels along.
200
List two different types of electricity.
Static and current electricity.
200
What is current electricity?
Electricity that moves along a path called a circuit.
200
What is an open circuit?
Gap between wire and battery/light where electric current cannot flow.
300
What are conductors?
Materials that allow electricity to flow.
300
How can air be used to create electricity?
Wind mills are used to bring in air and convert it into electricity.
300
What is an example of a power source?
Battery
400
What are insulators?
Materials which stop the flow of electricity.
400
What is renewable energy? Give an example.
Energy that comes from resources which are continually replenished.
400
What are 3 parts of a circuit?
Power source Conductor Load
500
How is a wire covered by rubber an example of both a conductor and an insulator?
The rubber wire stops electricity from harming those who touch the wire. The wires still move the electricity.
500
What is an example of nonrenewable energy? Give an example.
Sources of energy which are not replaced very easily.
500
What is a series circuit?
Connects several loads with only one path for electric current to flow.