What You Already Know: Electric Circuits

What is an electrical circuit?

• A whole bunch of wires

• A circuit board

• A pathway through which electric charges flow

When a switch is open

• The circuit is working and gives energy

• The circuit is broken and charges cannot flow

What makes up a circuit?

• Electricity

• A bulb and battery

• A bulb, battery, wire, and switch

• A wire and battery

A cell acts as a:

• source of energy

• As a path for electricity to flow through

• As a connecter to connect all paths of a circuit

The main types of circuits are series and parallel

• True

• False