Vocabulary
Magnets
Electricity
Pictures
Miscellaneous
100
This word means a push or pull on an object
What is force?
100
This is what we call the ends of magnets
What are poles?
100
This is what happens to electric force as you increase the distance between the charged objects.
What is it gets weaker?
100
This is what these two magnets would do.
What is repel?
100
This is one thing a junkyard worker could do to strengthen the electromagnet they use to pick up and move cars.
What is use a larger power source or have more coils in the wire they are using?
200
This is the word for when like magnetic fields push away from each other
What is repel?
200
This is what opposite ends of magnets do
What is attract?
200
This is what happens to electric force if you increase the amount of charge on one or both objects.
What is it gets stronger?
200
This is what these two magnets would do.
What is attract?
200
This is a strategy that would work for decreasing the attraction between statically charged objects.
What is move them farther apart or get rid of the charge?
300
This is the word for the invisible area around a magnet in which it exerts force
What is field or magnetic field?
300
This is a tool that uses Earth's magnetic field to point us North.
What is a compass?
300
This is a type of magnet made with a source of electric energy, wire coils, and a metal core.
What is an electromagnet?
300
This is the force this picture is an example of.
What is static electricity?
300
This is the reason why compasses are able to show us which direction is North.
What is they align with Earth's magnetic field?
400
This is the word for a flow of electrons through a region.
What is current or electric current?
400
This is the phenomenon caused by radioactive particles bouncing off of Earth's magnetic field
What is the northern lights or aurora borealis?
400
This is the force responsible for a sock sticking to your shirt in the dryer.
What is static force or static electricity?
400
This is what these two magnets are doing.
What is attracting?
400
This is one example of how we use magnets to make human lives easier.
What is to make moving motors, mag-lev trains, generators, MRI machines, navigation, holding stuff, etc.?
500
This is the word for the negatively charged particle of an atom (that is responsible for electricity)
What is an electron?
500
This is the name of a naturally magnetic stone that was used as a tool in ancient civilizations.
What is lodestone?
500
This phenomenon is caused by static charge building up and connecting between storm clouds and the ground.
What is lightning?
500
This is what these two magnets are doing.
What is repelling?
500
This is the reason Magnets are called Magnets.
What is they are named after the place they were discovered, Magnesia?