Electricity, Conductors, and Insulators Quiz

What is a circuit?

• A pathway that allows an electric current to flow freely

• A material that allows heat or an electric current to flow through easily

What is a conductor?

• A material that allows heat or an electric current to flow through easily

• Energy resulting from the flow of electric charge through a conductor

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What is electrical energy?

• Energy resulting from the flow of electric charge through a conductor

• A material that allows heat or an electric current to flow through easily

What is electric current?

• The flow of electrical energy through a circuit

• heat energy

What is an insulator?

• A pathway that prevents electric current from flowing freely or that stops the flow

• A material through which heat or electricity does not easily flow

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What is an open circuit?

• A pathway that prevents electric current from flowing freely or that stops the flow

• A material that allows heat or an electric current to flow through easily

What is thermal energy?

• Energy that causes a transfer of heat between materials

• A pathway that prevents electric current from flowing freely or that stops the flow

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What is a closed circuit?

• A material through which heat or electricity does NOT easily flow

• A pathway that ALLOWS an electric current to flow freely

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What is an insulator?

• A material through which heat or electricity does NOT easily flow

• A pathway that prevents electric current from flowing freely or that stops the flow

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