ELECTRICITY

Question 1

What are unbalanced charges?

Answer 1

A more correct term for static electricity

Question 2

What does resistor mean?

Answer 2

Used to represent one of many different bands in a circuit diagram

Question 3

What are insulators?

Answer 3

Any material on which the charge stays on the spot where the object is rubbed

Question 4

What does discharge mean

Answer 4

Static charging

Question 5

What is a galvanometer

Answer 5

An instrument used to measure very week currents

Question 6

What is a switch used for

Answer 6

It is used to open or close a circuit to control the flow of current through it

Question 7

What is a volt

Answer 7

Standard unit for voltage

Question 8

What is an ohm

Answer 8

Standard unit for resistance

Question 9

What is a conductor

Answer 9

Materials that allow charge to move freely

Question 10

What does circuit mean?

Answer 10

Something that lets electric current pass through.

Question 11

What is resistance

Answer 11

The property of a substance that hinders the motions of electric charge and converts it into electric energy

Question 12

What is voltage?

Answer 12

A common term referring to potential difference

Question 13

What is an ampere

Answer 13

The unit to measure electric current (A)

Question 14

What is a battery

Answer 14

A combination of cells either wet or dry

Question 15

What is a super conductor?

Answer 15

A material that offers little or no resistance to the flow of charge

Question 16

What is an ohmmeter

Answer 16

An instrument that directly measured resistance

Question 17

What is a voltmeter

Answer 17

The instrument used to measure voltage

Question 18

What is potential difference

Answer 18

The difference in potential energy per unit of charge between one point on the circuit and another point on the circuit

Question 19

What is a load

Answer 19

Items along a circuit that converts electricity into other forms of energy