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TCI Chapter 15 - Electricity

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the definition of electric current?

a)

A creative student

b)

An electric appliance

c)

The potential energy in the ocean

d)

A flow of particles with electric charge

2.

What is resistance?

a)

Opposition to the flow of electric charge

b)

The flow of electric charge

c)

Forces pulling against each other

d)

A stubborn person

3.

What is electric charge?

a)

Charging your phone

b)

A property of matter that causes waves in the ocean

c)

A property of matter that causes electrical phenomena

d)

A property of matter that causes food to be eaten

4.

What is electric forces?

a)

2 forces combining

b)

True love/ Love at first sight

c)

Repulsive forces

d)

Attractive or repulsive noncontact forces between charged particles

5.

What is the definition of repulsive?

a)

yucky foods

b)

When referring to forces, pulling together

c)

When referring to forces, pushing apart

d)

Gravity

6.

What is electric field?

a)

A field of energy

b)

A force field surrounding an electrically charged object

c)

A charged object

d)

A force field using super powers

7.

What is a prototype?

a)

The final outcome of a experiment

b)

The first draft of a design solution

c)

A working model of a design solution that can be used for testing and refining the design

d)

A drone

8.

What is a bolt of lighting?

a)

A firework

b)

Stream of electrically charged particles flying through the air.

c)

Side affect of thunder

d)

Chemicals

9.

Why are objects called neutral?

a)

Only Positive

b)

They have both positive and negative charge

c)

Only Negative

d)

They have no overall charge.

10.

What kind of objects can interact through electric forces?

a)

Hair

b)

Charged

c)

All objects

d)

Potato

11.

The electric forces between two objects are repulsive when they have the same kind of charge. True or False

a)

True

b)

False

12.

When two objects have opposite charges, the electric forces between them are what?

a)

Attractive

b)

Positive

c)

Negitive

d)

All of the above

13.

Electric forces can vary on what?

a)

Strength

b)

All of the above

c)

Mass

d)

Force

14.

The strengths of electric forces depend partly on what?

a)

The amount of charge on the interacting objects

b)

The mass of the object

c)

Potato size

d)

The material of the object

15.

The strength of the electric force also depends on?

a)

The distance between interacting objects

b)

Air resistance

c)

Gravity

d)

The mass and material of the object

16.

True or False: All charged objects create electric fields

a)

True

b)

False

17.

What is an example of a conductor?

a)

Copper

b)

All of the above

c)

Iron

d)

Gold

18.

How did Phone engineers find ways to improve the touch screens?

a)

3D printers

b)

Examples

c)

Science

d)

Using prototypes