Electricity

What could you use to make an electric circuit?

• Wires, bulbs, batteries

• String, rubber bands, lightning

• Candy, coordinate planes

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A conductor . . .

• repels a magnet

• does NOT allow electricity to flow through it

• allows electricity to flow through it

An insulator . . .

• sticks to a magnet

• does NOT allow electricity to flow through it

• allows electricity to flow through it

Select ALL the objects that are insulators

• Rubber

• Metal

• Water

• Plastic

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Select ALL the objects that are conductors

• Rubber

• Metal

• Water

• Plastic

Select ALL of the forms of static electricity

• Laundry sticking together

• A magnet attracting a penny

• Your hair sticking to a balloon when you rub them together

• Shocking your finger on the doorknob

• Sticking a knife into an electrical socket

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A electromagnet is special because...

• It can be turned on and off

• It stays on all of the time

• It has a lightbulb

Sam decorated his house with Christmas lights. He noticed that one of the bulbs went out, but it did NOT cause the rest of them to go out. What type of circuit must Sam’s light be?

• Parallel Circuit

• Series Circuit

What type of circuit has a complete path that allows electricity to flow through it?

• Open

• Closed

What type of circuit has a broken path that does NOT let current flow through?

• Open

• Closed