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Two positive charges will ..............................

• Repel each other

• Attract to each other

• None of the above

• Not affect each other

Protons have (a) ........

• Negative charge

• Positive charge

• No charge

• None of the above

A positive and negative charge will ..........

• Repel each other

• Do nothing to each other

• None of the above

• Attract to each other

What happens if you rub a balloon on your clothes and then put it on the wall?

• The balloon will fall from the wall

• The balloon will stick to the wall for a short time

• The balloon will bounce of the wall

• The balloon will fly to the ceiling and stick to the ceiling

Styrofoam peanuts stick to cat's fur due to ..........

• The difference in charges

• The similarity in charges

• Because the cat loves it

• Because the cat hates it

Rubbing a balloon on your clothes and then putting it close to water will ........

• Deflect the stream of water

• Attract the stream of water

• Won't afftect the water

• None of the above

Rubbing a balloon on the wall then putting it near your hair ..........

• Will make you bald

• Won't affect your hair

• Will make your hair attracted (go towards) to the balloon

• None of the above

An atom gains an electron.  What type of charge does it have now?

• positive
• negative
• No charge

During a physics lab, a plastic strip was rubbed with cotton and became positively charged. The correct explanation for why the plastic strip becomes positively charged is that ...

• the plastic strip acquired extra protons from the cotton.
  
• the plastic strip acquired extra protons from the charging process 
• protons were created as the result of the charging process
  
• the plastic strip lost electrons to the cotton during the charging process 

Insulators are different than conductors in that insulators ____.

• do not contain electrons or protons 
•  do not contain any charge
• have a weaker affinity for electrons 
• do not allow charge to freely move