Chapter 15

Question 1

a particle with equal amounts of positive charge and negative charge

Answer 1

electrically neutral

Question 2

the condition of having an unbalanced amount of positive charge or negative charge

Answer 2

electrically charged

Question 3

the process of an unbalanced electric charge becoming balanced

Answer 3

electric discharge

Question 4

A material in which electric charges connot easily move

Answer 4

electric insulator

Question 5

A material in which electric charges easily move

Answer 5

electric conductor

Question 6

the force that two electrically charged objects apply to each other

Answer 6

electric force

Question 7

the invisible region around a charged object where an electric force is applied

Answer 7

electric field

Question 8

the movement of electrically charged particles

Answer 8

electric current

Question 9

a closed, or complete, path in which an electric current flows

Answer 9

electric circuit

Question 10

a machine that transforms mechanical energy to electric energy

Answer 10

generator

Question 11

a measure of how difficult it is for an electric current to flow in a material

Answer 11

electric resistance

Question 12

the amount of energy used to move one coulomb of electrons through an electric current

Answer 12

voltage

Question 13

an object that attracts iron

Answer 13

magnet

Question 14

any material that a magnet attracts

Answer 14

magnetic material

Question 15

the fore that a magnet applies to another magnet

Answer 15

magnetic force

Question 16

region in a magnetic material in which the magnetic fields of the atoms all point in the same direction

Answer 16

magnetic domain

Question 17

a magnet created by wrapping a current-carrying wire around a ferromagnetic core

Answer 17

electromagnet