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Electricity : Chapter 1 - Section 1 Flashcards

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1
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True or False : All matter is made up of very small particles called atoms.

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True.

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True or False : Atoms are made up of even smaller particles called protons, neurons and electrons.

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True.

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True or False : Neurons are charged, protons and electrons are not.

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False. Protons and electrons are charged, neurons are not.

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True or False : Charge is a physical property.

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True.

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True or False : An object can only have a positive charge.

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False. An object can have positive charge, negative charge or no charge.

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True or False : Charged objects exert a force on other charged objects.

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True.

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What does the law of electric charge state?

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The law of electric charge states that charges repel (push away) and opposite charges attract.

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What type of charge do protons have?

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Positive charge.

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9
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What type of charge do neurons have?

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No charge.

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What type of charge do electrons have?

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Negative charge.

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True or False : Since protons and neurons have opposite charges, they are attracted to each other.

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True.

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True or False : Without electrons and protons being attracted to each other, electrons could not be held in atoms.

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True.

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What is electric force?

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The force between charged objects.

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What two things does the size of the electric force depend on?

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  1. The amount of charge on each object. 2. The distance between the charges.
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True or False : The smaller the charge, the greater the electric force is.

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False. The greater the charge, the greater the electric force is.

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True or False : The greater the distance between the charges, the greater the electric force.

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False. The closer the charges are, the greater the electric force is.

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Why are charged things affected by electric force?

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Charged things are affected by electric force because charged things have an electric field around them.

18
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What is the electric field?

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The region around a charged object in which the electric force is exerted on another charged object.

19
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True or False : A charged object is attracted or repelled by the electric field acting on it.

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True.

20
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True or False : Atoms have an equal number of protons and electrons.

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True.

21
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True or False : Since protons and electrons cancel each other out, atoms are positively charged.

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False. Since protons and electrons cancel each other out, atoms don’t have a charge.

22
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True or False : An object becomes positively charged when it loses it’s electrons

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True.

23
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True or False : An object becomes negatively charged when it gains electrons.

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True.

24
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True or False : An object can become charged by friction, conduction or induction.

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True.

25
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How does charge by friction occur?

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When electrons are “wiped” from one object to another.

26
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How does charge by conduction occur?

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When electrons move from one object to another by direct contact.

27
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How does charge by induction occur?

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When charges in an uncharged metal object are rearranged without direct contact with a charged object.

28
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True or False : When you charge something by any method, no charges are created or destroyed

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True.

29
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True or False : Since charges are not created or destroyed, charge is said to be wasted.

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False. Since charges are not created or destroyed, charge is said to be conserved.

30
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What device can you use to determine if an object is charged?

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You can use a device called an electroscope to see if something is charged.

31
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True or False : You can use an electroscope to determine if an object’s charge is negative or positive.

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False. You cannot determine if an object’s charge is positive or negative by using an electroscope, you can only tell if it is charged or not.

32
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What is an electroscope, and how does an electroscope work?

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An electroscope is a glass flask that has a metal rod in it’s rubber stopper; two metal leaves attached to the bottom of the rod. When electroscope is not charged, leaves hang straight down, when electroscope is charged, leaves repel each other (spread apart).

33
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True or False : Different materials are used because electric charges move through some materials more easily than they move through others.

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True.

34
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What is an electrical conductor?

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An electrical conductor is material in which charges can move easily.

35
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Why are most metals good conductors?

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Because some of their electrons are free to move.

36
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What is an insulator?

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An electrical insulator is a material in which charges cannot move easily.

37
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Why don’t insulators conduct charges well?

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Because their electrons cannot flow freely.

38
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What is static electricity?

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Static electricity is the electric charge at rest on an object

39
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True or False : Charges of static electricity do not move away from the object that they are in (so object keeps it’s charge).

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True.

40
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What is electric discharge?

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The loss of electricity as charges move off of an object.

41
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True or False : Sometimes electric discharge happens quickly (flash of light, a shock, crackling noise).

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True.

42
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Does this diagram represent an atom?

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Yes.

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