Chapter 15

Question 1

A particle with equal amounts of positive charge and negative charge

Answer 1

Electrically Neutral

Question 2

Object has an unbalanced amount of positive charge or negative charge

Answer 2

Electrically Charge

Question 3

The loss of an unbalanced electric charge

Answer 3

Electric Discharge

Question 4

A material in which electric charges cannot easily move

Answer 4

Electric Insulator

Question 5

A material in which electric charges easily moves

Answer 5

Electric Conductor

Question 6

The force that two electrically charged object apply to each other

Answer 6

Electric Force

Question 7

This invisible region around any charged object where an electric Force is applied

Answer 7

Electric Field

Question 8

The movement of electrically charged particles, such as electrons

Answer 8

Electric Current

Question 9

A closed, or complete, path in which an eletric current flows

Answer 9

Electric Circuit

Question 10

A measure of how difficult it is for an electric current to flow in a material

Answer 10

Electric Resistance

Question 11

Machines that transform mechanical energy to electric energy

Answer 11

Generators

Question 12

An Electric circuit is the amount of energy used to move one coulomb of electrons through the circuit

Answer 12

Voltage

Question 13

An object that attracts iron and other materials that have magnetic qualities similar to iron

Answer 13

Magnet

Question 14

Any material that a magnet attracts

Answer 14

Magnetic Material

Question 15

A push or a pull a magnetic field applies to either a magnetic material or an electric current

Answer 15

Magnetic Force

Question 16

A region in a magnetic material in which the magnetic fields of the atoms all point in the same direction

Answer 16

Magnetic Domain

Question 17

A temporary magnet made with a current-carrying wire coil wrapped around a magnetic core

Answer 17

Electromagnet