El Electricity

Question 1

a. What gives a circuit power?

b. Page 56 What is the end of a battery called?

Answer 1

a. The battery

b. The terminal

Question 2

a. Where is the electricity for your house made ?

b. Page 56 How must the terminals of 2 cells be connected together to supply electricity to the circuit ?

Answer 2

a. A power station

b. Opposites together +to-

Question 3

a. What is the name for the bits of wire that join things together in a circuit ?
b. Page 57 Question 1 part b

Answer 3

a. Connectors

b. Turned one of the cells round

Question 4

Page 56
a. What is the name for one battery on its own ?

b. Page 56 What happens if there is a gap in a circuit ?

Answer 4

a. Cell

b. nothing works because electricity cannot flow

Question 5

Page 57
a. Question 1 part c

b. What happens inside the thin wire inside the bulb in the torch on Page 57 when the torch is on ?

Answer 5

a. A and C

b. Electrons flow through the metal. The metal get hot and starts to glow.

Question 6

a. Page 57 Question 2 Part a

b. What sort of spoon could she put in the circuit to make it work ?

Answer 6

a. Cells are the wrong way round
The spoon does not conduct electricity

b. A metal spoon

Question 7

Page 58

a. What are materials that let electricity pass through them called ?
b. What is an electrical insulator ?

Answer 7

a. Electrical conductors

b. A material which electricity finds it hard to flow through.

Question 8

a. Page 59 Question 1 part a

b. Page 59 Question 1 part b

Answer 8

a. The metal core

b. To stop electricity reaching you

Question 9

a. Page 61 Question 2 part a

b. Page 60 What is a device?

Answer 9

a. Nothing

b. A piece of equipment like a television or a computer