Static Electricity

What is static electricity?

• The buildup of electric charge; electricity on an object

• The flow of electric charge, and thus, electricity around a circuit

• The flow of electric charge from one object to another

• The buildup of voltage on an object

How does an object become negatively charged?

• The object gains enough electrons to balance the number of positive charges

• The object loses electrons

• The object gains positive charges

• The object gains electrons (negative charges)

What is electric discharge?

• The gain of static electricity

• The loss of static electricity

• The flow of static electricity from one object to another

• The strengthening of static electricity on an object

Which is NOT an example of static electricity?

• lightning

• hair standing up on your head after rubbing a balloon on it

• The lights flickering during a thunderstorm

• shuffling across the carpet and feeling a shock when you touch a door knob

How do items become positively charged?

• Through gaining positively charged atoms

• Through losing positively charged atoms

• Through magnetism

• By chance

What is lightning?

• Lightning is an example of magnetism

• Lightning is circuit electricity from the cloud to the ground

• Lightning is an electric discharge of negative charges (that build up in the bottom of a cloud) from a cloud to the ground.

• Lightning is an example of a parallel circuit.

What is a ground?

• an object that conducts electricity

• an electrical switch

• an electrical connection that is part of a parallel circuit

• an object that can “absorb” the electrons without becoming charged.