Circuit Vocabulary

Opens and Closes the flow of an electrical circuit

• electric current

• Switch

• electric circuit

• electrons

The pathway through which electricity flows

• Circuit

• electric charge

• fuse

• electric current

a form of energy that is produced when electrons move from one place to another

• electric circuit

• flow

• electric current

• electricity

a complete pathway of conductors that electrons flow through

• open circuit

• electric circuit

• closed circuit

• flow

a constant flow of electrons through a conductor

• electric charge

• electric current

• electrons

• conductor

to move or travel smoothly in a certain direction

• electric current

• load

• flow

• open circuit

a device that shuts off the power to an electrical circuit when there is too much current flowing through it

• fuse

• load

• electricity

• switch

electrons do not have a path to flow through; light bulb will not light

• insulator

• closed/complete circuit

• conductor

• open/incomplete circuit

electrons have a complete path to flow through; light bulb will light

• closed/complete circuit

• electric current

• electric circuit

• open/incomplete circuit

materials that allow electricity to move through them easily

• insulator

• fuse

• conductor

• switch