Magnets and Electricity

You walk across the carpet on a cold, dry day.  When you touch a metal door knob, you see a spark of light and feel a small shock.  What form of energy have you just experienced?

• Magnetism

• Static Electricity

• Lightning

• Gravity

If an object is being pulled toward a magnet, what can we say about the object?

• It is being attracted.

• It is being repelled.

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A positive and a negative charge will ___ each other.

• Attract

• Repel

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Attract or Repel?

• Repel

• Attract

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The transfer of negatively charged particles between materials is called (a)   .

• static electricity

• mechanical energy

• radiant energy

• thermal energy

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a core of magnetic material surrounded by a coil of wire through which an electric current is passed

• electromagnet

• insulator

• magnet

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any material that attracts and produces a magnetic field

• electromagnet

• insulator

• magnet

If you put a magnet with two of the same poles near each other, they...

• attract (move closer)

• repel (move away)

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A temporary magnet caused by an electric current.

• Electric Motor

• Magnetic Field

• Electromagnet

• Magnet

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A solid substance that attracts iron and steel.

• Electromagnet

• Magnetic Field

• Static Electricity

• Magnet