Electricity vocabulary

What is a conductor?

• A material that does not allow electricity to pass through it.

• A material that allows electricity to pass through it.

What is an insulator?

• A material that does not allow electricity to flow through it

• A material that allows electricity to flow through it.

What is a series circuit?

• An electric circuit with multiple paths (loops)

• An electric circuit with a single path (loop)

What is a parallel circuit?

• A circuit that contains more than one path for the current flow

• A circuit that contains one path for the current flow.

What does a resistor do?

• Measures the voltage produced by a power supply

• Buzzes when a circuit is complete

• It slows down the flow of electrons in a circuit.

• Transforms chemical energy into electrical energy

What is a circuit?

• A component that lights up

• A flow of electrical charge

• A path for electrical current to flow around.

What is a current?

• A flow of electric charge

• A dried fruit

• A path for electric to flow around

What does the term voltage mean?

• Measures the voltage produced by a power supply

• The amount of work to be done to move a charge from one point to another along an electric circuit.

• Two or more cells in series

What is a battery?

• A device that converts chemical energy to electrical energy

• A device that converts electrical energy into chemical energy

• A component that glows when a circuit is complete

What is the national grid?

• A large grid drawn onto a field

• A service that converts chemical energy into electrical energy.

• The system of wires and transformers that distributes electricity around the country