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Science Studies Week 7 Magnets Electricity

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What did Benjamin Franklin discover about lightning?

a)

Nothing

b)

It is a form of electricity

c)

It is a form of magnets

d)

It is a form of erosion

2.

What are northern lights?

a)

beautiful colors in the night sky

b)

lights caused by magnetic field of Earth mixing with plasma streams

c)

lights caused by magnetic field of Earth mixing with solar winds from sun

d)

city lights

3.

What is lodestone?

a)

sandstone

b)

magma

c)

a magnetic rock that contains a lot of iron ore

d)

a magnetic rock that contains plastic

4.

What do magnets and electricity have in common?

a)

both have positive and negative charges

b)

both are forms of energy

c)

nothing

d)

both create fields

5.

Where is a magnet's strongest force?

a)

in the middle

b)

all over

c)

at its poles

d)

nowhere

6.

What happens if a magnet gets broken?

a)

nothing

b)

each piece will still have north and south poles

c)

stays the same

d)

it loses some of its strength

7.

What kind of electricity is produced when you rub your feet on the carpet?

a)

magnetism

b)

static electricity

c)

lightning

d)

lodestone

8.

Which form of energy has both a positive and a negative charge?

a)

electric

b)

solar

c)

magnetic

d)

nuclear

9.

Why does a magnet lose strength each time you drop it?

a)

It gets broken.

b)

It gets mad.

c)

The atoms remain together.

d)

The atoms in the iron get scrambled.

10.

What does a magnet have that electricity does NOT have?

a)

east pole

b)

south pole

c)

west pole

d)

north pole

11.

What do we use everyday that contains magnets?

a)

books

b)

computers

c)

pencils

d)

paper

12.

What is deep inside the planet Earth?

a)

magnetism

b)

air

c)

nothing

d)

monsters

13.

What is needed for magnets to repel, or push away from, each other?

a)

2 positive or 2 negative poles close together

b)

2 positive or 2 negative poles far away from each other

c)

3 positive or 3 negative poles close together

d)

3 positive or 3 negative poles far away from each other

14.

What discovery helped the Chinese invent the compass?

a)

sandstone

b)

lodestone

c)

opal stone

d)

diamond stone