B14: Electricity

What is electricity?

Here is a short video about electricity and some things that we need to know to move forward. 

Multiple Choice

What are the moving particles that move to create an electrical current?

• Protons

• Neutrons

• Atoms

• Electrons

Multiple Choice

Which particle is NEGATIVELY charged?

• A - electron

• B - Neutron

• C - Proton

Multiple Choice

What would happen between these charges?

• The charges repel

• The charges attract

• Nothing happens

Multiple Choice

What would happen between these charges?

• The charges repel

• The charges attract

• Nothing happens

Fill in the Blank

When electrical charges build up on the surface of an object, ________ occurs.

Fill in the Blank

Objects with unlike charges pull toward, or _____, each other.

Fill in the Blank

Objects with like charges push against, or _____, each other.

Circuits

Multiple Choice

An incomplete or broken circuit.

• Closed Circuit

• Open Circuit

• Cracked bulb Circuit

Multiple Choice

A Circuit is the pathway through which electricity flows.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

A complete, connected circuit:

• Closed Circuit

• Conductor Circuit

• Open Circuit

Resistor

Limits the flow of electrical current in a circuit

Switch

• Moving (drawbridge) Metal

• Closes to complete a circuit

• Open to break the circuit

Multiple Choice

Part of a circuit that controls the open-ness or closed-ness of the electric flow.

• Series Circuit

• Switch

• Parallel Circuit

• Generator

Multiple Choice

A material that allows electricity to flow through it easily

• conductor

• insulator

• resistor

Multiple Choice

A material that does not allow electricity to flow through it

• Conductor

• Insulator

• Resistor

Multiple Choice

A material that reduces the flow of electrons

• conductor

• insulator

• resistor

Match

Match the following

Insulator

power source

conductor

Output Device

Switch

• Insulator

• power source

• conductor

• Output Device

• Switch

Multiple Choice

An electric circuit in which the current passes through a single path.

• Parallel Circuit

• Current Circuit

• Series Circuit

• Conductor Circuit

Multiple Choice

The pathway through which electrical current flows

• Electric Circuit

• insulator

• Flows

• Electromagnet

Multiple Choice

A path along which electric charges can flow

• Series Circuit

• Parallel Circuit

• Circuit

• Conductor

Multiple Choice

What type of circuit is this?

• series circuit

• parallel circuit

Multiple Choice

What type of circuit is this?

• Series Circuit

• Parallel Circuit

Multiple Choice

The energy being used is __________ and it is producing _______ energy.

• Electrical energy to sound energy.

• Electrical energy to mechanical energy.

• Sound energy to electrical energy.

• Sound energy to light energy.