Electricity Basics
Electrical Charge and Force
Current
Resistance
Types of Circuits
100
(47) Electricity is a form of _________.
What is energy?
100
(47) _________, like wire,easily transfer energy and _________, like the plastic coating on wire, slow energy down.
What is conductors / insulators?
100
(49) The flow of electric charges.
What is current?
100
(50) A _____ wire has more resistance than a _____ wire.
What is thin / thick?
100
(51) Any path for electrons to travel along.
What is a circuit?
200
(47) An atom is made up of these three parts.
What are protons, electrons, and neutrons?
200
(48) When two objects rub together, like your foot and the carpet, __________ causes electrons to transfer from one item to another.
What is friction?
200
(49) The potential energy of a charged object because of where it is in an electric field.
What is electric potential energy.
200
(50) How easy or hard it is for electricity to flow through a material.
What is resistance?
200
(51) A complete, unbroken path for electrical current. The light is on.
What is closed circuit?
300
(47) Electrons _____, or push away, other electrons.
What is repel?
300
(48) You can charge a neutral object by touching it with a charged object, like your finger touching the doorknob. This is called _____.
What is conduction?
300
(49) Difference in voltage between the ends of a conductor.
What is potential difference?
300
(50) Resistance is higher in a ____ wire than in a _____ wire.
What is long / short?
300
(51) An incomplete path with no electrical current. The light is off.
What is an open circuit?
400
(47) Electrons repel, or push away other electrons because of their negative _____.
What is charge?
400
(48) If a charged object comes near a neutral object that is a good conductor, the charges in the neutral object can be rearranged. This is charging by _____.
What is induction?
400
(49) How hard or easy it is for electricity to flow through a material.
What is resistance?
400
(50) Resistance increases as the temperature ______.
What is increases?
400

(51)connecting an object to the Earth by a good conductor

What is grounding?

500
(47) An electrical property of matter that creates a force between objects.
What is a charge?
500
(48) Charges interact over a distance because every charged object is surrounded by an ______.
What is electrical field?
500
(49) The unit in which electrical energy is measured.
What is volt?
500
(50) Conductors have _____ resistance and insulators have _____ resistance.
What is low / high?
500
(51) A circuit that has only one path for the current to travel is a _____ circuit and a circuit with more than one path for the current is a ____ circuit.
What is series / parallel?