Insulators and Conductors

Why are metals useful for making electrical wire?

• Metals do not bend.
• Metals hold much heat.
• Metals are insulators.
• Metals are conductors.

Something electricity can't move through is called a(n) ______.

• conductor
• wire
• shoe
• insulator

What is a example of a conductor?

• wood 
• metal
• rubber
• rock

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What is a example of a insulator?

• metal 
• rubber
• water

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Rubber is a insulator.

• true
• false

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What are Conductors?

• A conductor is a material that allows electric charge to move through it as an electric current. Usually the charge is carried by electrons, and the conductor is a metal.
• an insulator
• an conductor 
• A material or an object that does not easily allow heat, electricity, light, or sound to pass through it. Air, cloth and rubber are good electrical insulators; feathers and wool make good thermal insulators. Compare conductor.

What are insulators?  

• A conductor is a material that allows electric charge to move through it as an electric current. Usually the charge is carried by electrons, and the conductor is a metal.
• An object that is really, really, really, and I mean really truely, awesome.
• A material or an object that does not easily allow heat, electricity, light, or sound to pass through it. Air, cloth and rubber are good electrical insulators; feathers and wool make good thermal insulators. Compare conductor.

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What is the difference between a conductor and an insulator?

• An insulator allows electricity to flow through it easily and a conductor does not
• A conductor allows electricity to flow through it easily and an insulator does not.
• An insulator is magnetic and a conductor is not
• A conductor is magnetic and an insulator is not

A insulator does not let energy flow through easily 

• True 
• False

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A conductor allows energy to easily pass by.  

• True 
• False

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