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Who first observed static electricity?

Greeks

100

What is a flowing charge?

Electric Current

100

What word refers to when a spark occurs and a large accumulation of static electricity is suddently released?

Discharge

100

Who experimented with frog legs and noted what he saw?

Luigi Galvani

100

When this is present, electrons do not travel aimlessly.

Voltage

200

Who noted two types of electric charges?

Ben Franklin

200

This is the name of the first reliable source of electricty that could be stored in a lab.

Voltiac Pile

200
What is caused when electrons clump together?

Friction

200

Who established the law of conservation of charge?

Benjamin Franklin

200

This person made the first color photograph.

James Clerk Maxwell

300

Who experimented with frog legs and made the predecessor to our current battery?

Count Alessandro Volta

300

This is the term for charged subatomic particles.

charge

300

When this type of static electricty is caused it is temporary.  What is it?

induction

300

Who coined the term electric?

William Gilbert

300

This is also called an ionized gas.

plasma

400

Who developed four math equations that are complete descriptions of all known electric and magnetic phenomena in the universe?

James Clerk Maxwell

400

This is static electricity that is cuased when objects are touching.

conduction

400

How many ways to we know that static electricity is formed?

Three

400

Who demonstrated the opposite effect of Ampere's Law?

Michael Faraday

400

This is the main reason why metals are good conductors of electricity.

Free flowing electrons in a crystal lattice structure.

500

Who proposed that Earth acts like a magnet?

William Gilbert

500

What has a metal lining and holds an electric charge?

Leyden Jar

500

These are nearly even in the world around us and that helps for safety.

Electric charges

500
Who suggested that natural magnetism was the result of tiny circulatin currents inside the atoms in magnetic materials?

Andre-Marie Ampere

500

This is the substance that ancient Greeks rubbed on fur.

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