Electric Current

What is an electric current?

• The flow of electric charges through a conductor

• no charges through a conductor

• Anything that takes up space

• a wind turbine

You open a switch to stop the flow of electricity.

True or false

• True

• false

You close the switch to turn on a device or to turn on a light.

True or false

• false

• true

The power source provides electrical energy for the what?

• diagram

• water

• circuit

When the switch is open, electricity will not what?

• it will work properly

• circuits

• bulb

• flow

When a switch is closed, electricity will what?

• flow

• circuits

• will not work properly

Electric current follows the lines in a circuit and flows back to the what?

• magnet

• diagram

• source

Electrical energy is produced at a ________________and then sent to a step up transformer to increase the voltage.

• school

• power plant

• store

• stadium

Electrical energy is produced at a power plant and then sent to a step up transformer to increase the what?

• sun

• magnets

• pressure

• voltage

Frayed wires are a common cause of what?

• infection

• short circuits that cause fires

• lightning