Magnetism Vocabulary

To push away from a magnet

• repel

• attract

• levitate

• like

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to draw to a magnet

• repel

• levitate

• like

• attract

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A magnet created by running an electric current through it

• temporary magnet

• superconductor

• permanent magnet

• electromagnet

The end of the magnet that attracts the south pole and repels the north pole

• north pole

• south pole

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Device that uses a magnet to point in the direction of earth's magnetic poles.

• compass

• magnetosphere

• magnetite

• electromagnet

Area around a magnet where its magnetic force exists

• magnetic attraction

• superconductor

• magnetic field

• electromagnet

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A magnet that loses all or most of their magnetic strength quickly

• permanent magnet

• temporary magnet

• superconductor

• electromagnet

A naturally occurring magnet: also known as lodestone

• iron

• magnetite

• cobalt

• steel

Any object that pulls other metals towards it...

• compass

• magnet

• iron

• metal

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NGSS.MS-PS2-5

An object that loses its magnetism after a short time...

• magnet

• metal

• temporary magnet

• permanent magnet