5th grade -electricity

5th grade -electricity

Open Ended

What is electricity?

Multiple Choice

What causes electricity?

• the nucleus of an atom

• moving neutrons

• moving protons

• moving electrons

Multiple Choice

What type of charge do electrons have?

• negative charge

• positive charge

• no charge

• atomic charge

Multiple Choice

What reaction can you expect when electrons hop from the atoms in one object to the atoms in another?

• a thermal reaction

• a solar reaction

• a nuclear reaction

• an electric reaction

Poll

An example of electricity that is created by natural force is

• lighting

• wind turbines

Multiple Choice

What happens when you walk across a room and your shoes rub against the carpet?

• Nothing happens.

• Electrons hop from the carpet to your shoes, creating static electricity.

• Your shoes stick to the carpet.

Poll

The type of electricity that occurs when you rub a balloon on your sweater is

• static electricity

• hydro electricity

Multiple Choice

Which of these is caused by static electricity?

• A magnet attracts a paper clip

• Glue holds two pieces of paper together

• Ice sticks to a car’s windshield

• Socks taken from a clothes dryer stick together

Multiple Select

Only negative charges can move from one material to another.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

An object that has the SAME number of Positive and Negative charges has a . . .

• Positive charge

• Negative charge

• Neutral charge

Multiple Choice

The pull or push between two charged objects is:

• electric charge

• electric force

• static electricity

Electric force

Poll

An excess of positive or negative charge in an object is

• static electricity

• electric force

Static electricity

Open Ended

Tiny building blocks that make up all matter

Atoms

Poll

A fast and powerful release of static electricity

• electric force

• lightning

Lightning

Multiple Choice

Can be positive or negative; protons and electrons have this:

• electric force

• electric charge

• static electricity