Flash cards

Question 1

Current Electricity

Answer 1

Is a continus flow of electrons

Question 2

Conductors

Answer 2

Good at carrying electric currents
ex
- Cooper and alumnium

Question 3

Insulators

Answer 3

a material that is not good at carrying currents
ex:
- rubber and wood

Question 4

Current

Answer 4

the amount of charge that moves

Question 5

Voltage

Answer 5

A power source that provides a force that moves a charge around a circuit

Question 6

Resistance

Answer 6

A Mesure of how hard it is for change to though a circuit

Question 7

Circuit

Answer 7

a continues path that current Electricity flows through

Question 8

Closed circuit

Answer 8

A circuit without any breaks / a continues path

Question 9

Open circuit

Answer 9

A circuit with a break / not able to carry a current

Question 10

Powersource

Answer 10

Provides voltage to push chares through

Question 11

Series Circuit

Answer 11

Compounds are placed one after another along ONE path

Question 12

Discharge

Answer 12

The loss of static electricity as electric charges transfer from one object to another

Question 13

Electric Field

Answer 13

A region around a charged object where the objects elctric force is exerted on other objects

Question 14

Electricity

Answer 14

The interaction between electric charges

Question 15

Friction

Answer 15

The transfer of electrons from one uncharged object to another by rubbing

Question 16

Load

Answer 16

The component of a circuit that consumed the electricity energy- a light bulb

Question 17

Electron

Answer 17

The negatively charged part of a atom

Question 18

Induction

Answer 18

movements of electrons from one part of an object to another

Question 19

Resistance

Answer 19

a measure of how hard it is for the electrons to move through a circuit

Question 20

What are ways you could make lights brughter

Answer 20

-dd another battery
-increase the voltage

Question 21

What happens to a current as restance increases

Answer 21

slows down

Question 22

What happens to current as voltage increases?

Answer 22

speed up

Question 23

What is the difference between static and current Electricity?

Answer 23

Current elctrity has a continues flow of electrons but static is a build up of electrons that dosn’t flow

Question 24

What kind of charges are moving in electricity?

Answer 24

elctrons

Question 25

What are the three ways charges can transfer

Answer 25

-induction -friction -conduction

Question 26

Why is static electricity temporary?

Answer 26

Electrons will discharge over time

Question 27

Permanent magnet

Answer 27

an object that is permatly magnetized

Question 28

Maganetism

Answer 28

attraction or repulsion between magnetic objects

Question 29

Poles

Answer 29

the end of magnets

Question 30

What would you have to do so they would attract eachother?

Answer 30

Put the north and south pole together

Question 31

All the Kinetic energy from the movement of particles in a object

Answer 31

thermal energy

Question 32

Energy of moving electrons

Answer 32

electrical energy

Question 33

The bonds between the protons of a silver atom

Answer 33

Nuclear

Question 34

The bonds between the atoms of a match like fire

Answer 34

chemical energy

Question 35

A flying bird

Answer 35

grav. potential

Question 36

_______ is energy stored due to an object's position

Answer 36

potential energy