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100
A complete pathway for an electric current to follow.
What is a circuit?
100
Give an example of something wired with a parallel circuit.
What is answers may vary?
100
Electric current does not flow through these materials.
What are insulators?
100
When is our Science test?
What is Thursday?
100
A device used to open and close a circuit.
What is a switch?
200
A movement of electrons along a path.
What is an electric current?
200
What is the main way that fuses and circuit breakers help us?
What is they can stop the flow of electricity and prevent fires in our homes?
200
Materials that do not stop of the flow of electric current but do not allow the current to flow easily.
What are resistors?
200
We wrote about this in our journal as a diary entry and it will appear on our test.
What is life before and after electricty at school?
200
Devices in an electric circuit that contain a wire that melts and opens the circuit when the current becomes too strong.
What is a fuse?
300
An arrangement of iron wrapped in a coil of wire carrying an electric current.
What is an electromagnet?
300
If you hired an electrician to wire your home, how would you hope that he wired it.
What is with parallel circuits?
300
Give an example of an insulator?
What are air, rubber, plastic?
300
How do you turn an electromagnet off?
What is by switching off the current?
300
Electric current moves through the parts of this circuit in only one pathway.
What is a series circuit?
400
An electric current flows through different parts of this circuit at the same time.
What is a parallel circuit?
400
Give an example of something wired as a series circuit.
What is a flashlight, Christmas lights, the lights halfway around the Super Dome in New Orleans, ect.?
400
Gold, Silver, and Copper.
What are conductors?
400
3 examples of electromagnets.
What are VCR, telephone, doorbell, TV, stereo speakers, metal detectors, and metal moving cranes?
400
Electric current flows easily through these.
What are electric conductors?
500
An electric current travels through this circuit without passing through any device.
What is a short circuit?
500
Describe how a light switch works.
What is a light switch opens and closes a circuit to shut off or turn on the flow of electricity?
500
Give 2 examples of resistors?
What are a toaster, an electric burner, and lightbulbs?
500
2 Ways to make an electromagnet stonger
What is wrapping more coils and increasing the amount of current or electricity?
500
Reusable switches that stop the flow of current in a circuit if the electric current becomes to strong.
What are circuit breakers?