Electricity Flashcards

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Loads

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Device that electrical energy is delivered to in a circuit

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Electric current

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Continuous flow of electric chance

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Wires

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Connect the energy source to the load in a circuit

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Energy source

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Pushes electrical changes through circuit

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Switch

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Opens and closes a circuit

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Series circuit

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Is a circuit where the loads are connected in a line so that the current flows from one load to the next in a single path

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Parallel circuit

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Is a circuit where the electric current is divided among multiple loads

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Circuit

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Is the path through which an electric current flows

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Closed circuit

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A switch is connected the current flows, completing the circuit as it moves through the load

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Open circuit

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The switch is disconnected you are breaking the circuit, preventing the electrons from moving

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If you split a magnet in half both ends will still have ______ poles

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Two/ north to south or south to north

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The three main parts of a circuit

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1) loads 2) energy source 3) wires 4) switch

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To increased the strength of an electromagnet, one ___ coils of wire

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Add

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Electricity flow from the _____ end of the battery to the ______ end of the battery

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Negative, possitive

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The _________ circuit takes up more space

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Parella

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parella

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the _____ circuit takes up more space

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negative , possitive

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electricity flows from the _______ end of the battery to the _________ possitive end of the battery

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add

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to increase the strengh of an electomagnet, one __ coils of wire

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1] energy sorce 2} loads3} wires4} switch

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the three main parts of a circuit?

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two/ north to south or south to north

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if you split a magnet in half both ends will still have ______ poles