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Electricity: Circuits
Use your slates to answer the following questions.
Electricity: Circuits
What is an atom?
The smallest building block of life.
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What are the three parts of an atom?
Protons, neutrons, and electrons.
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Which of the three particles can move from one atom to another?
Electrons
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What are the charges of the three particles?
Electrons= negative (-)
Protons= positive (+)
Neutrons= neutral / none
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What kind of charges attract?
Opposites.
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Name a material that would be a good conductor of electricity.
Most metals such as iron and steel.
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Name a material that is used as an insulator.
Plastic, rubber, glass, etc.
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What powers an electromagnet?
A battery.
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The build up of electrons on an object is called what kind of electricity?
Static electricity.
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Electricity that flows is called ____________ electricity.
Current
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Draw me an example of a parallel circuit.
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A parallel circuit has how many paths?
More than 1.
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Draw a series circuit.
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Draw an open series circuit.
Draw a closed series circuit.