Electricity Vocabulary Words

A material that allows electric energy to flow through it easily

• Conductor
• Insulator
• Wire
• Circuit

This material keeps electricity from passing through it

• Insulator
• Conductor
• Resistor
• Wire

Electrons are negative

• True
• False

A net gain or loss of electrons 

• Electric Charge
• Electricity
• Electric Circuit
• Energy

Flow of electrons that creates a charge, one of the fundamental forms of energy

• Electric Charge
• Friction
• Circuit 
• Electricity

If both objects have negative electric charges or both have positive electric charges, the two objects ________________, or push away, each other.

• repel

• attract

• neutral

• force

If one object has a negative charge and the other has a positive charge, each object ______________, or pulls on, the other object.

• repels

• attracts

• neutral

• force

The push or pull of charged objects on each other is an _____________________________.

• static discharge

• conductor

• insulator

• electric force

Which two particles are attracted to each other?

• Two neutrons

• A proton and an electron

• Two protons

• An electron and a neutron

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A repulsive force exists between which two particles?

• Two neutrons

• An electron and a neutron

• An electron and a proton

• Two protons

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