Electricity Vocabulary

What is the flow of electrical charges (means electricity is moving)?

• Source

• Circuit

• Electric Current

• Switch

What is the path that an electrical current flows along? The picture is an example of one.

• Electric Current

• Source

• Electricity

• Circuit

What word means where something comes from or where you go for something?

• Electric Current

• Source

• Electricity

• Circuit

What means the strength of the power source?

• Electric Current

• Circuit

• Electricity

• Voltage

Which circuit is a complete, unbroken circuit that the electric current can travel around completely? (The object getting the electricity is working.)

• Open Circuit

• Closed Circuit

Which circuit has a break or an opening that does not allow the electric current to flow through. (The object getting the electricity is not working.)

• Open Circuit

• Closed Circuit

What word means a form of energy that can be changed into other forms of energy?

• Electricity

• Source

• Circuit

• Electric Current

Which object in the circuit turns the electric current on and off?

• Motor

• Lightbulb

• Switch

• Battery

Which materials allow electric charges to travel through them? This means that they allow heat to go through them. Examples of these are metals.

• Insulators

• Conductors

Which materials do not let electric charges flow through them easily? This means that heat does not flow through them easily. Examples of these are wood, rubber, plastic and glass.

• Insulators

• Conductors