Magnets and Electromagnetism

This picture best illustrates the construction of a(n)

• magnet

• electromagnet

• series circuit

• parallel circuit

How do you make an electromagnet stronger?

• Add a motor and/or lightbulbs
• Add more light bulbs and/or wire coils
• add more wire coils and/or a switch
• add more wire coils and/or batteries

What is true about electricity and magnetic fields?

• Electricity is needed to create any magnet.
• Electricity always creates a magnetic field.
• Electricity is stronger than a magnetic field.
• Electricity prevents magnetic fields from occurring.

This is a picture of a simple electromagnet. How can the electromagnet be made stronger?

• Add more coils of wire to the nail.
• Use a smaller battery.
• Reverse the poles of the magnet.
• Remove all the coils and the nail.

What kind of magnet can be turned on and off?

• refridgerator magnet
• electromagnet
• magnetite
• iron

What is magnetic force?

• A force exerted by electrically charged particles

• A force exerted by magnets that can be felt by objects near a magnet

• A force exerted by magnets that makes an object become electrically charged

• A force exerted by a magnet only when it physically touches an object

Which of the following is not a good conductor?

• Copper

• Silver

• Aluminium

• Plastic

Particles with opposite charges ____________ and particles with same (or like) charges ____________.

• attract, repel

• repel, repel

• attract, attract

• repel, attract

What would happen with the magnets in the picture above?

• They would repel

• Nothing

• They would attract

• They would repel and then attract

Which sides of the magnet repel each other?

• A) North and North Pole

• B) South and South Pole

• C) The North and South Pole

• D) A and B

• E) A, B,C