Parallel Circuits Flashcards

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What is a parallel circuit?

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A parallel circuit is way of connecting components on separate branches, so the current can take different routes around the circuit.

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What is a series circuit

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A series circuit has all the components in one loop connected by wires, so there is only one route for current to flow.

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3
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what is potential difference

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how much energy the electrons carry around the circuit

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4
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how can you measure potential differnce

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voltmetre

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5
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what is voltage

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an electromotive force

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6
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what are the units for potential differenc meausred in

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Volts

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7
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what is electricity

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a fow of electrons around a circuit

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8
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what are the different wires called

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live wire, neutral wire and earth wire

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9
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what is a magnetcic field

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area around a magnet where there is magnetic force

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what is a stem cell

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is a cell that hanst differentiated yet

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10
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what metals are magnetic

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iron, cobalt and nickel

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11
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how many neuarons make up a human brain

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86 billion

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what is a neuron

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a nerve cell

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13
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what is the cerebal cortex

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the outer layer of the cerebrum it is the centre of conscious thought

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what is the cerebal corext didvided into to

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into cerebal hemipsheres each with different functions

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is selma shuts her left eye which side brain is she using

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right brain

16
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what is the spinal cord

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consists of many nerves that carry information between the brian and the rest of the body

17
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what does cns stad for

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central nervous system

18
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what makes up the CNS system

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the brain and the spinal cord nerves and sense organs

19
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what is a sense organ

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receptor cells that sense surroundins

20
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how many bones are in the body

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206 bones

21
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what does the retina contain

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rod and cone cells

22
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what is the cornea

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a clear coverign around the pupil

23
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what is a pupil

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the hole through the iris

24
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what is the iris

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a coloured ring

25
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what does the optic nerve do

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transfers visula information from the retina to the brain via electrical impulses

26
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what is an electrical impulse

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a wave of electrical activity that passes from one end of a nerve cell to another

27
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how many rods and cone cells are in a human retina

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120 million rods, 6 million cones

28
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what is the eye

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a sense organ

29
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what is an antagonisitc muscle

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pair of muscles that act against each other

30
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what is a agonisitc muscle

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a muscle whose contractionmoves a part of the body directly

31
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what happnes to the bone when tit contracts

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it gets short and fat

32
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what does voluntary muscles mean

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they only work when you tell them to

33
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what does involuntary muscles mean

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our contracting muscles are automatic