Electricity - Open and Closed Circuits

Electricity is a general term for anything that involves what?

• heat

• motion

• an electric charge

• sound

What is something that provides a path for electricity to travel through?

• an electric circuit

• an insulator

• mechanical energy

• electric current

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Which of these is not an electric circuit?

• The wiring that lights your house

• Lightning, clouds, planet Earth

• Water flowing through pipes

When you cut a wire, what happens to the electricity?

• It flows out

• It stops flowing

Which of the following statements is true?

• Electricity flows through a closed circuit, but not an open circuit

• Electricity flows through an open circuit, but not a closed circuit

True/False: In a closed circuit, all parts of the circuit are connected

• True

• False

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NGSS.4-PS3-2

True/False: in an open circuit, a light bulb will light up

• True

• False

When a current is broken, where does the electricity go?

• It spills out onto the ground

• The current stops, electrical currents only flow in closed circuits

True/False: An open circuit is a circuit with no breaks in it

• True

• False

What does a switch do?

• It breaks or completes the circuit path

• It does nothing