Magnet Vocab Review

Magnetism

• an invisible field around a magnet

• a property of certain kinds of materials that causes them to attract iron or steel

• to push away from each other

• the end or side of a magnet

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Gravity

• the force that attracts matter toward Earth

• to pull toward each other

• a push or pull

• an instrument that uses a free-rotating magnetic needle to show direction

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Pole

• in a pair, the side the side that is different

• the influence of a magnetic field on a piece of iron, making the iron temporary iron

• the end of a magnet that orients toward earth's magnetic north pole

• the end or side of a magnet

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Compass

• an instrument that uses a free-rotating magnetic needle to show direction

• an object that sticks to iron or steel

• the influence of a magnetic field on a piece of iron, making the iron a temporary magnet

• a property of certain kinds of materials that causes them to attract iron or steel

Force

• the end side of a magnet

• an object that always sticks to iron or steel

• to pull toward each other

• A push or pull

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Temporary Magnet

• a metal that sticks to a magnet

• A piece of iron that behaves like a magnet only when it is surrounded by a magnetic field

• a property of certain kinds of of materials that causes them to attract iron or steel

• to push away from each other

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North Pole

• the end of a magnet that orients toward earth's magnetic south pole

• the end side of a magnet

• the end of a magnet that orients toward earth's magnetic north pole

• the force that attracts matter toward Earth

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Magnetic Field

• an invisible field around a magnet

• to push away from each other

• a push or pull

• a property of certain kinds of materials that causes them to attract iron or steel

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Repel

• to pull toward each other

• an object that always sticks to iron or steel

• to push away from each other

• the end side of a magnet

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South Pole

• a push or a pull

• the end of a magnet that orients toward earth's magnetic south pole

• the end of a magnet that orients toward earth's magnetic north pole

• an instrument that uses a free-rotating magnetic needle to show direction