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Static Electricity
Current Electricity
Magnetism
Electromagnets
Inventors
100
The build up of electric charges on someone or something.
What is static electricity?
100
Metal, living things, silver, and gold are examples of this.
What are conductors?
100
An object that attracts iron and certain other metals.
What is a magnet?
100
A strong temporary magnet that uses electricity to produce magnetism.
What is an electromagnet?
100
This person created lightning rods which are still used on most buildings.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
200
The two kind of electric charges.
What are positive and negative?
200
An example of this is when you turn on a light switch and the lights come on.
What is a closed circuit?
200
What happens when two unlike poles of magnets are brought towards one another.
What is attract?
200
This happens when the amount of coils in and electromagnet are increased.
What is the magnet is stronger?
200
This person invented the telegraph and telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
300
What objects with like charges do when they come near each other.
What is repel?
300
The type of circuit created when parts are connected so that electric current passes through each part along a single pathway.
What is a series circuit?
300
Where the force of the magnet is greatest.
What is the magnetic poles?
300
A device that changes electrical energy into energy of motion.
What is a motor?
300
This pair of brothers created the first airplane.
Who are the Wright Brothers?
400
What static electricity causes when negativiely charged objects come in contact with each other.
What is a discharge or shock?
400
The type of circuit used in a house.
What is a parallel circuit?
400
The thing that is formed when you stroke an iron nail with a permanent magnet.
What is a temporary magnet?
400
The things that carry electricity to the customers.
What are power lines?
400
This man created peanut butter, and many other peanut products.
Who is George Washington Carver?
500
Identify the charge: + + + + - - - + + - - -
What is neutrally charged?
500
The reason insulators are used in wires for electric circuits.
What is to coat the wires and so that the electric current does not escape?
500
What causes Earth to act as a magnetic field.
What is its core of molten iron?
500
Created when magnetism and energy of motion are used to produce electricity.
What is a generator?
500
This man invented the electric light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?