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A battery that has chemicals in a liquid form? |
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"wet cell" |
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Examples of everyday devices that use electromagnets? |
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computer disk drives, doorbells, electric fan motor, |
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a name for a dischage of static electricity in the atmosphere? |
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"lightning" |
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A source of electricity that contains two cells that hold chemicals and produce electricity between the cells? |
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"batteries" |
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a battery that has chemicals in side it in the form of a paste and produces electricity? |
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"dry cell" |
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The definition for Electricity |
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a continuous flow of negative charges (electrons) that create an electric current. |
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A type of electricity that is produced naturally? |
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"static electricity" |
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examples of an electric current? |
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The shock you get by touching a doorknob, A lightning bolt, To light a light bulb or run a computer |
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a type of electricity that is produced by friction when certain objects rub together, building an electric charge between them? |
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"static electricity" |
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A small magnet that can turn freely and points north? |
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compass |
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Electric circuit defined? |
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any path along which electrons can flow |
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A circuit with objects connected in a single path? |
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series circuit |
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a circuit where there are two or more pathways for it? |
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"parallel circuit" |
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Conductor defined? |
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materials that electricity flows through easily. |
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Examples of how electricity is used in our homes? |
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produces, light, heat, sound and runs appliances such as ovens, television sets, and steros and powers light bulbs. |
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A famous inventor that used a kite experiment to prove that electricity in the air produces lightning? |
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Benjamin Franklin |
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"voltage" defined? |
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the force of the electricity as it travels along a pathway |
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A famous inventor who developed the light bulb? |
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Thomas Alva Edison |
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this allows for example the electricity to flow from the battery through the wire, to the appliance or light bulb, and back to the battery? |
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closed circuit |
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Examples of sources used to produce electricity? |
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sunlight,wind,water,fossil fuel, nuclear power and batteries |
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2 words which are measures to describe electricity |
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volts and amperes (amps) |
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An object that pulls iron and steel things to it? |
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magnet |
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Examples of good conductors for an electric circuit? |
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copper and aluminum (the atoms in metals don't hold electrons tightly) |
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The space around a magnet where magnetism acts? |
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Magnetic field |
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a circuit where there is only one pathway for the current? |
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"series" circuit |
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An object that electric current does not pass easily through? |
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insulator |
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It is "broken" and does not let the electricity complete its travel through the entire circuit? |
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"open circuit" |
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What an iron bar with coil wrapped around it when electric current flows through the coil is called? |
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Electromagnet |
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"resistance" defined? |
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a term used to describe how well electricity will flow in a material. Materials that resist electric current are important because they allow electric energy to be changed into other forms. |
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the path electricity flows through |
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CIRCUIT |
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the pathway taken by an electric current |
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circuit |
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certain iron-bearing metals that attract other such metals |
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cobalt, nickel lodestone is a rock with magnetic attraction |
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A Danish physicist, accidentally discovered that an electric current has magnetic effects? |
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Hans Christian Oersted |
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A tiny bit of an atom that has a positive charge? |
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proton |
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A place on a magnet where the magnet is the strongest |
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pole |
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The British physicist who discovered the process of creating electric current from an electromagnet? |
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Michael Faraday |
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the vocabulary word for how well electricity flows through a material? |
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resistance |
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Insulators defined? |
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materials that don't let electricity flow at all. These materials don't carry electrons. These materials keep wires from touching each other and completing an electrical circuit. |
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A tiny bit of an atom that has a negative charge |
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electron |
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A circuit in which current has a separate path for each object |
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Parallel circuit |
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electricity that flows through a circuit? |
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electric current |
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A machine that uses an energy source and a magnet to make electricity? |
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generator |
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Examples of good insulators? |
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rubber, plastic, glass, and air |
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The force around a magnet? |
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Magnetism |