Electricity 1
The accumulation of excess electric charge on an object.
What is static electricity?
The number of directions an electric current can travel.
What is 1?
The AC in AC/DC stands for.
What is alternating current?
Fossil fuels are considered this kind of resource, as it takes millions of years to recreate them.
What is nonrenewable?
Pushing water through turbines to create electric energy.
What is hydroelectric power?
Energy is produced when the nucleus of an atom is split. This is known as _____.
What is fission?
The largest number of individuals an environment can support.
What is carrying capacity?
Something that does not allow the flow of electrons or charge easily.
What is insulator?
Something that allows the flow of electrons or charge easily.
What is a conductor?
The I in the power equation stands for.
P=IV
What is current?
Created from the remains of dead plants and animals.
What are fossil fuels?
Energy resources that can be easily recreated are considered this kind of resource.
What is renewable?
Nuclear power plants produce an electric current that is similar to what other kind of energy source?
What is fossil fuels?
The units for current.
What is amperes?
The idea that electric charge can be transferred between objects, but never created or destroyed.
What is the law of conservation of charge?
Connecting an object to Earth and allowing a path for electricity to reach it.
What is grounding?
The substance found in dry-cell batteries.
What is electrolyte?
The process that produces natural gas deep beneath the ocean also creates this compound.
What is petroleum?
What is 70%?
What is low-level waste?
Units for resistance.
What is ohms?
True or false: charges can exert forces.
What is true?
What is induction?
What is a circuit?
The efficiency of burning fossil fuels.
What is 35%?
Windmills create energy from what source?
What is wind?
The harmful product of nuclear power plants.
What is 7-11%
Measured in volts, this is what causes electric charges to flow.
What is voltage difference?
An object that can detect electric charge.
What is electroscope?
What is electron?
Coal mines are found are found at the sites of ancient ______.
What are swamps?
The use of heat deep within the earth to create energy.
What is geothermal energy?
Nuclear power is created using a ______, when one atom splits it creates enough energy to split another, then another and so on.
What is chain reaction?
The efficiency of nuclear power plants.
What is 35%