Electricity

Lightning is a form of static electricity.

• True

• False

A conductor...

• Can be made of metals

• Can be made of plastics, wood, rubber, and glass

• Is a material that allows negative charges to pass through it

• Can control static electricity

Static electricity is...

• easily controlled

• a kind of electricity that people use every day

• an electric charge that collects, or builds up on the surface of an object

Forces exists between electric charges. Which statements are correct?

• Opposite charges repel each other

• Like charges repel each other

• Like charges attract each other

• Opposite charges attract each other

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What type of electricity is used every day by people to light their homes and run their appliances?

• Static

• Current

• Circuit

• Stationary

A particle that has no charge is called...

• Proton

• Electron

• Neutral

What type of charges move freely from place to place in a solid?

• Positive

• Neutral

• Negative

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When you plug an appliance into an electrial outlet, you are using static electricity.

• True

• False

The flow, or movement, of negative charges through a material is called...

• Static current

• Magnetism

• Electric current

For an electric current to be safely used at any time...

• It must be controlled

• We must be able to make it start and stop moving

• It must be able to move through an insulator

• We must be able to control where it goes

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