Electricity Vocabulary Practice

What is static electricity?

• A form of energy from the movement of electrons

• A buildup of electric charge on an object

• A closed pathway through which electricity flows

• Material that allows heat to flow easily

What is human-harnessed electricity?

• Electricity created and used by humans

• A buildup of electric charge on an object

• Material that cannot conduct electricity

• The flow of electric charge through a conductor

What is electricity?

• A closed pathway through which electricity flows

• Material that allows heat to flow easily

• Form of energy from the movement of electrons through a conductor

• The part of a circuit that carries the current

What is electric current?

• A buildup of electric charge on an object

• The flow of electric charge through a conductor

• A closed pathway through which electricity flows

• Material that cannot conduct electricity

What is an electric circuit?

• A buildup of electric charge on an object

• A closed pathway through which electricity flows

• Material that allows heat to flow easily

• The part of a circuit that carries the current

What is a conductor?

• Material that cannot conduct electricity

• A buildup of electric charge on an object

• Material through which heat or electrons flow easily

• The part of a circuit that drives electrical current

What is an insulator?

• Material through which heat or electrons flow easily

• Material that cannot conduct electricity

• A closed pathway through which electricity flows

• The flow of electric charge through a conductor

What is a load in a simple circuit?

• The part that carries the current around the circuit

• The part that drives electrical current around the circuit

• The part powered by electricity in a circuit

• Material that allows heat to flow easily

What is a power source in a simple circuit?

• The part that carries the current around the circuit

• The part that drives electrical current around the circuit

• The part powered by electricity in a circuit

• Material that cannot conduct electricity

What is a path in a simple circuit?

• The part that carries the current around the circuit

• The part that drives electrical current around the circuit

• The part powered by electricity in a circuit

• Material that allows heat to flow easily