Unit 5 Part 2 Electricity

A complete pathway made of conductors through which electric current can flow.

• Circuit

• Charge

• Insulator

• Energy

Parallel Circuit

• Contains 2 or more charges for an electrical path to flow.

• An electric current has only one path to follow to and from the energy source.

Series Circuit

• Contains 2 or more charges for an electrical path to flow.

• An electric current has only one path to follow to and from the energy source.

The flow of electrons through a wire is what?

• Electric Current

• Chemical Energy

• Sound Energy

• Geothermal Radiation

Which objects would produce a circuit that produced light?

• Battery, Bell, Wire

• Plastic hose, yarn, battery

• battery, light, wire

• yarn, battery, light

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Particles with an opposite charge repel, or push away from, one another. Particles with similar or same charges attract one another, or pull together. 

• True

• False

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Look at the circuit pictured below. What parts of the circuit need to be closed in order for the lightbulb to work?

Choose two correct answers.

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

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Electric charges that build up on an object.

• Electricity generating plant

• Battery

• Static Electricity

• Sound Energy

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Tobias and Jennifer tested a light bulb, a buzzer, and a fan on five different circuits. They recorded their observations in the table below. Which circuits were complete based on their observations?

Select two correct answers.

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

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Which of the following is correct to label the diagram? 

• A - Proton

  B - Neutron

  C - Electron

• A - Electron

  B - Proton

  C - Neutron

• A - Neutron

  B - Proton

  C - Electron

• A - Electron

  B - Neutron

  C - Proton

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