Battery Basics
This is the part of a battery where electricity leaves.
What is positive (+) terminal?
This connects everything together to make a path for electricity.
What are wires (or snap wires)?
Electricity can only flow when the circuit is this.
What is closed?
This everyday items uses batteries and a simple circuit to make light.
What is a flashlight?
If you add a second battery and the light gets brighter, what changed?
What is the voltage increased?
This is what pushes electricity through a circuit.
What is voltage?
This part lights up when electricity flows through it.
What is a light bulb (lamp)?
If there's a break in the circuit, it is called this.
What is as open circuit?
This household device uses a circuit to make sound like a Snap Circuit buzzer.
What is a doorbell?
Your circuit has a battery and a light, but nothing turns on. Everything is snapped together. What is the most likely problem?
What is the switch is off OR the battery is dead OR placed backwards?
Most Snap Circuit Jr sets use this type of battery.
What are AA batteries?
This part can open or close the circuit.
What is a switch?
This is the path electricity follows through a circuit.
What is a circuit (or loop)?
This happens to a battery when it runs out of energy.
What is it dies or is drained?
Why is a chort circuit dangerous?
What is it can cause heat, damage parts, or drain the battery quickly?
This happens if you put a battery in backwards.
What is the circuit won't work ( no power flows)?
This part makes sound in Snap Circuits Jr.
What is a buzzer ( speaker)?
Using more than one battery like this makes things stronger/brighter.
What is connecting batteries in series?
This safety rule means you should never mix old and new batteries.
What is to prevent damage or leaks?
Why wont electricity flow if even one connection is loose?
What is the circuit is not complete?
This is the stored energy inside a battery that gets turned into electricity.
What is chemical energy?
This is the plastic board where you snap everything together.
What is the base grid (Snap Circuit board)?
This happens if electricity takes a shortcut and skips the parts.
What is a short circuit?
This type of energy is moving through the wires in your Snap Circuit.
What is electrical energy?
What is the difference between an open circuit and a closed circuit.
What is
open= broken/no flow
closed=complete/flowing