Electricity Vocabulary

A closed path that electric current follows.

• electric circuit
• resistance 
• insulator

A tiny bit of an atom that has a negative charge.

• neutron
• electron
• proton

the completed path traveled by an electric current

• parallel circuit 
• electric charge
• circuit

What is the definition for an electric current?

• A flow of electric charges
• A material through which heat and electricity flows easily.
• How much a material opposes, or resists, the flow of electric current.

What is an electromagnet?

• A device made up of a current carrying wire coiled around an iron core.
• a basic property of the tiny particles that make up matter. Can be positive or negative.
• a continuous pathway that can carry an electric current

A flaw in a circuit that allows large current to flow through where it isn’t wanted.

• electric force
• electromagnet
• short circuit

An electric circuit with only one path for current.

• parallel circuit
• electric force
• series circuit

a particle with no charge found in the nucleus of an atom

• electron 
• circuit
• neutron

Describe a parallel circuit.

• An electric circuit with two or more paths for current to follow
• The area around electric charges, where electric forces can act.
• An electric circuit that has only one path for the current.

The area around electric charges, where electric forces can act. 

• electron 
• electric field 
• conductor