Electricity and Circuits

What is electricity?

• an object that electrons do not flow through

• energy created by moving charged particles

• when two objects repel each other

• a circuit that has only one path for electricity to flow

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Which of the following is an insulator?

• an eraser

• a wire

• a penny

• a metal spoon

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Which of the following is a conductor?

• wood

• rubber

• metal

• plastic

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What kind of electricity is natural (example: lightning)?

• current electricity

• static electricity

• power source

• insulator

A parallel circuit has more than one path for electricity to flow

• true

• false

Imagine you are creating a circuit. It works and the light bulb turns on. Then you add a piece of plastic to the circuit, and the light bulb does not turn on. We can infer that the plastic is

• an insulator

• a conductor

• an electron

• static electricity

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Items that have the same charge will do what?

• attract

• repel

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What is a device that supplies the power to an electric circuit (for example: a battery)?

• electron

• atom

• power source

• fuse

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What type of electric circuit only has ONE path for the electricity to flow?

• series

• parallel

• open

• none of the above

Electrons will move easily through Aluminum. Based on this, we know Aluminum is a(n)

• conductor

• insulator

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