Electricity Terms
This is an electric charge that can be collected and held very nearly fixed in one place.
What is static electricity?
This is a complete pathway that allows electrons to flow.
What is an electric circuit?
This is the ability to do work by pushing electrons around a circuit.
What is electrical energy?
This is the passing on of traits from an individual to its offspring.
What is heredity?
This type of reproduction requires only one parent and produces offspring that are genetic copies of the parent.
What is asexual reproduction?
The unit of electric charge, equivalent to the amount of charge passing a point in one second.
What is a coulomb?
In this type of circuit, components are connected sequentially, forming a single path for current flow, and if one component fails, the entire circuit breaks.
What is a series circuit?
This is a measurement of how electrical energy an electrical device consumes every second it is in use.
What is power rating?
This threadlike structure in a cell nucleus carries hereditary information in the form of genes.
What is a chromosome?
This is the final stage of the cell cycle, which separates the two nuclei and cell contents into two daughter cells.
What is cytokinesis?
This term refers to the electric energy stored in a battery.
What is electric potential energy?
In this type of circuit, resistance does not increase as you add more bulbs, and the brightness of the bulbs is unaffected.
What is a parallel circuit?
This Canadian government program rates the energy consumption and efficiency of heating, cooling, and ventilation.
What is EnerGuide?
This is a change in the DNA sequence of an organism, which can be positive, negative, or neutral.
What is a mutation?
This process produces gametes with half the number of chromosomes as body cells.
What is meiosis?
This is the amount of electric potential energy per one coulomb of charge at one point in a circuit compared to another point, also called voltage.
What is electric potential difference?
According to Ohm's Triangle, this quantity is calculated by multiplying current and resistance.
What is voltage?
This formula, E=P×t, is used to calculate energy consumption.
What is Energy transferred equals power multiplied by time?
These two scientists described the structure of DNA and how it replicates in 1953.
Who are James Watson and Francis Crick?
This is the first and longest stage of the cell cycle, in which cells carry out life functions and prepare for cell division by replicating DNA.
What is interphase?
An electrical component with a set amount of resistance that slows down electrical current and transforms electrical energy into other forms.
What is a resistor?
This safety device contains a metallic conductor that melts when excessive current heats it up.
What is a fuse?
One method of reducing electrical consumption in homes is to improve this.
What is insulation?
This is a change in the specific order of the A, G, C, and T bases that make up a particular gene.
What is a gene mutation?
The process of transformation from a youth form to an adult form, which can be complete or incomplete in insects.
What is metamorphosis?