static electricity

What types of charges attract?

• Positive and Positive

• Positive and Neutral

  
  

• Negative and Neutral

• Positive and Negative

Electric charges that are alike _______ each other.

• attract

• repel

Electric charges that are different _______ each other.

• 
  Attract

• Repel

Ms Jo Jo rubbed two balloons with a piece of wool. What will happen when the balloons are brought near each other?

• 
  The balloons will repel each other.

• 
  The balloons will become positively (+) charged.

• The balloons will pop.

• 
  The balloons will attract each other.

What charge does an electron have?

• 
  negative (-)

• neutral or no charge (0)

• 
  positive (+)

True or False, Lighting is a form of static electricity.

• true

• false

The girl's hair and the balloon are attracting one another.  The hair and the balloon have

• opposite charges

• like charges

If an object has a higher number of protons than electrons on its surface, what type of charge does it have?

• A positive charge.

• A negative charge.

• A neutral charge

• Not charged