Electric Energy

What Is Electricity?

• Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with electric fields and electric charge.

• Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge.

• Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presense and motion of matter that has a property of electric fields.

• Electricity is when you get Instagram followers and you become famous.

What is an example of Electricity? (Multiple Choice)

• Light Bulb

• Dog's Bark

• Batteries

• Thunder

• Lightning

In both a dry cell and a wet cell battery, what causes the production of electrical current?

• a chemical reaction

• a step-down substation transformer

• magnets

• generators at a power plant

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What happens when a wire passes through a magnetic field?

• A dry cell battery is created

• A wet cell battery is created

• nothing happens

• Electricity is produced.

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When two objects are rubbed together, what moves from one object to another creating charged objects and static electricity?

• electrons

• energy levels

• protons

• watts

A(n) ________ is formed when an electric current passes through an unbroken path of conductors.

• battery

• insulator

• surge protector

• circuit

A device that makes electricity by using chemical reactions, stores energy until it is needed

• circuit

• battery

• insulator

• copper wire

Material that allows electric current or thermal energy to pass through easily

• conductor

• insulator

• flow

• circuit

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Usually, the electric charge that moves is the _______. They can move from one object to another, causing the material to take on a temporary change.

• electron

• proton

• static

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Units called ______ describe how strongly electrons flow from one object to another.

• joules

• volts

• watts