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WorksheetsQuiz on Electricity and Electronics
Total questions: 41
Worksheet time: 21mins
In 600 BC, rubbing fur on amber demonstrated which phenomenon?
Magnetism
Static electricity
Alternating current
Nuclear fission
Who coined the term "electricus"?
Benjamin Franklin
Alessandro Volta
William Gilbert
Michael Faraday
Franklin's 1752 kite experiment showed that:
The electric spark and lightning are the same
Kites are insulators
Storms create magnetism, not electricity
Lightning is harmless to conductors
Who created the first electrochemical battery, the voltaic pile?
Michael Faraday
Nikola Tesla
Alessandro Volta
Thomas Edison
The term "voltage" originates from the work of:
Nikola Tesla
Alessandro Volta
Thomas Edison
Michael Faraday
Which scientist is associated with the year 1832 in this timeline?
Nikola Tesla
James Watt
Michael Faraday
Thomas Edison
Which pair is associated with the light bulb and early power systems?
Benjamin Franklin and William Gilbert
Alessandro Volta and Michael Faraday
Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison
James Clerk Maxwell and Georg Ohm
Which location is noted as the first to have light in 1881?
Berlin, Germany
Surrey, UK
New York, USA
Paris, France
Which component is a microcontroller development board that controls your circuits?
Potentiometer
Arduino UNO R3
Transistor
Breadboard
Which item connects a 9V battery to power leads?
USB cable
Power lead
Battery snap
Jumper wire
A device with one or more electrochemical cells and external connections is a:
Photoresistor
Capacitor
Battery
Diode
Which is a solderless, reusable construction base for prototyping?
Heatsink
Breadboard
PCB
Perfboard
Which passive two-terminal component stores and releases energy in an electric field?
Inductor
Diode
Capacitor
Resistor
On an electrolytic capacitor, the stripe marks the:
Negative lead
Center tap
Ground case
Positive lead
A capacitor with leads exiting opposite ends is called:
Surface-mount
Axial leaded
Radial leaded
Shielded
Which wires are used to connect components on a breadboard and to the Arduino?
Jumper wires
Twisted pair
Ribbon cables
Power cords
Which component allows current flow in only one direction?
Resistor
Diode
Potentiometer
Photoresistor
Which component emits light when current passes through it?
Servo motor
LED
Transistor
Piezo buzzer
The two terminals of an LED are called:
Gate and source
Collector and emitter
Anode and cathode
Tip and ring
A three-terminal device forming an adjustable voltage divider is a:
Diode
Potentiometer
Photoresistor
Transistor
The longer jumper wire used to provide power and ground from Arduino to breadboard is the:
Signal lead
Power lead
Battery snap
USB cable
Which switch closes the circuit only while it's pressed?
Reed switch
Push button
DIP switch
Toggle switch
Which component resists current flow, is measured in ohms, and has no polarity?
LED
Capacitor
Resistor
Diode
Which component detects vibrations and can create tones or melodies?
Piezo buzzer
Servo motor
Transistor
Photoresistor
Which component produces sounds or melodies (without vibration sensing)?
Push button
LED
Buzzer
Piezo buzzer
Which sensor changes its behavior based on the amount of light it sees?
Thermistor
Accelerometer
Photoresistor
Potentiometer
Which component is used to amplify or switch electronic signals and power?
Transistor
Capacitor
Diode
Resistor
Which geared motor typically rotates up to 180 degrees?
Stepper motor
Servo motor
DC motor
Brushless motor
Which cable connects your Arduino to a computer and also provides power?
Ethernet cable
USB cable
HDMI cable
Audio cable
Which item primarily brings 9V battery power into your circuit assembly?
Jumper wire
Breadboard
Power lead
Battery snap
Electronics is primarily concerned with the:
Construction of buildings
Analysis of animal behavior
Design of circuits
Refining of crude oil
Regarding electric charges:
All charges repel
Opposite charges attract; like charges repel
Like charges attract; opposite charges repel
All charges attract
A circuit is best described as a:
Looped path that allows electricity to continuously flow
Static charge on an insulator
Magnetic field without wires
Straight line that stops electricity
In direct current (DC), current flows:
Only when a magnet is nearby
In one direction, from positive (power) to negative (ground)
Only through capacitors
Back and forth rapidly between two directions
In alternating current (AC), current:
Changes direction back and forth
Is always constant
Exists only in batteries
Flows only from negative to positive
Arduino is an open-source:
Hardware, software, and content platform
Cloud database
Operating system only
Mechanical toolkit
The Arduino community has approximately how many active users worldwide?
300 million
30 million
300 thousand
3 million
IDE stands for:
Internal Device Emulator
Interactive Debug Engine
Integrated Design Emulator
Integrated Development Environment
A closed circuit is a:
Path with zero resistance
Complete path for current flow
Path with no power source
Broken path for current flow
An open circuit is a:
Path where current flow is broken
Path with an ideal conductor
Path that shorts power to ground
Path that doubles voltage
A short circuit is:
An abnormal connection between two nodes of a circuit
A neatly wired circuit
A temporary open switch
A circuit with a small battery
