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A coil of wire with an electric current in it

SOLENOID

100

If the current in a wire is traveling North, what direction will a compass point if it is held directly above the wire?

East.

100

What is the name of the rule for finding the direction of a magnetic field around a current carrying wire?

The right-hand rule.

100

The current induced in the wire is at a maximum when the wire in a circuit moves __________ to a magnetic field.

prependicular

100

This is what happens when a magnets north and south poles are brought near each other.

What is "they will attract?

200
The area around a magnet where magnetic forces act.
What is the magnetic field?
200

What direction would a compass needle point if you were in Australia?

To the geographic north pole.

200

A magnet that is easy to magnetize but will lose its magnetic properties quickly.

What is SOFT MAGNETIC MATERIALS

200
This is what Lodestones were used for by the Ancient Chinese and Greeks.
What is a compass?
200

This is what happens when a magnets south and south poles are brought near each other.

What is "they will repel?

300
The two ends of a magnet are called this.
What are poles or magnetic poles?
300
This is the effect of increasing the number of coils in a electromagnet?
What is "it will make the electromagnet stronger?
300

A magnet that is hard to magnetize but stays magnetized.

What is hard magnetic materials?

300
A substance that is attracted to a magnet.
What is iron?
300
The interaction between electricity and magnetism.
What is electromagnetism?
400

A coil of wire with an electric current in it

What are domains?  

400
This is how the Earth's magnetic field is similar to a magnet.
What is "both have North and South poles?
400
This is what happens when you break a magnet in half.
What is the creation of two dipole magnets?
400
This is what the two ends of a magnet are know as.
What are the North and South poles?
400
The parts of the magnet where the magnetic effects are the strongest.
What are the magnetic poles?
500

Magnetic field lines from a bar magnet leave the ______ pole and enter the ________ pole.

North and south

500

A temporary magnet created by coiling a wire around a metal core, and passing a current through the wire.

What is an electromagnet?

500

What is the process of generating an electric current by moving a magnet in and out of a coil of wire?

Electromagnetic Induction

500
This is what most magnets are made of.
What is iron?
500
Nickel, Cobalt, Iron and Neodymium.
What are "materials that are magnetic?