Types of Electricity Review Questions

Lightning striking a building

Is this an example of static electricity or current electricity?

• Static Electricity

• Current electricity

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Clothes are sticking together in a dryer

Is this an example of static electricity or current electricity?

• Static Electricity

• Current Electricity

• Neither

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Charging a cell phone

Is this an example of static electricity or current electricity?

• Static Electricity

• Current Electricity

• Neither

Negative charges moving through a wire

Is this an example of static electricity or current electricity?

• Static Electricity

• Current Electricity

• Neither

A buildup of electrical charges in an object

Is this an example of static electricity or current electricity?

• Static Electricity

• Current Electricity

• Neither

Peter rubs his socks across the carpet as he is walking and then touches a metal door knob. What will most likely happen as he touches the door knob?

• The charge will do nothing

• He will get a light shock.

• The door knob will repel him.

• He will build up more charge.

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Objects that have like charges will ______________.

• repel each other

• attract each other

• do nothing

• will multiply

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Objects that have unlike charges will______________.

• repel each other

• attract each other

• do nothing

• multiply

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When is it easiest for someone to build up static electricity?

• when the ground is wet in the spring

• when the air is hot during the summer

• when the air is dry during the winter

• after a rainstorm when it is warm and humid

A Traffic Light is an example of this type of electricity.

• Human-harnessed electricity

• Natural-occurring electricity