Electricity Vocabulary

A ______ is a push or pull exerted on an object.

• Force
• Energy
• Current
• Insulator

 What is the ability to do work or cause change?

• Force
• Energy
• Circuit
• Current

What is the stored energy that results from the position or shape of an object?

• Kinetic Energy
• Potential Energy
• Thermal Energy
• Electrical energy

What is a complete and unbroken path?

• Current
• Voltage
• Circuit
• Conductor

What is a continuous flow?

• Circuit
• Insulator
• Current
• Force

What is a material through which charges cannot flow?

• Conductor
• Insulator
• Copper wire
• Gold

The force between charged objects?

• Electricity
• Electric force
• Electric field
• Static Electricity

What is a region around a charged objects where the object's electric force is exerted on other charged objects?

• Electric Force
• Electricity
• Electric Field
• Static Electricity

The build up of charges on an object is called?

• Electric force
• Electric Field
• Static electricity
• Electricity

Charged by ______ is the transfer of electrons from one uncharged object to another by rubbing the objects together.

• Friction
• Conduction
• induction
• polarization