What Is Electricity?

_____________ object has more positive electric charges than negative electric charges.

• A positively charged

• A negatively charged

• A neutral

• a balanced

_____________ object has more negative electric charges than positive electric charges.

• A positively charged

• A negatively charged

• A neutral

• a balanced

___________object has an equal number of positive and negative electric charges.

• A positively charged

• A negatively charged

• A neutral

• An unbalanced

When positive and negative electric charges are equal, they _______

• increase each other.

• cancel each other

• decrease each other

• none of them

When you rub a balloon on your hair the balloon_____________.

• gets negative charges from your hair

• gets positive charges from your hair

• becomes neutral

• becomes positively charged

Why is the girl's hair attracted to the balloon in the picture?

• Her hair and the Balloon have opposite electric charges.

• Her hair and the Balloon have the same electric charges.

• Her hair and the Balloon don't have electric charges.

• Her hair and the Balloon are neutral objects.

Negatively charged objects can attract neutral objects.

• True

• False

Positively charged objects attract positively charged objects.

• True

• False

Positively charged objects attract negatively charged objects.

• True

• False

__________ is the jumping of charges from one object to another object.

• Electric Discharge

• Electric Current

• Kinetic Energy

• Negatively charged object