Energy/Electricity Vocab Quiz 5th

What is an insulator?

• The flow of charges along a path

• A material that readily allows electric charges to pass through it

• A device that changes electrical energy into mechanical energy

• A material used to reduce or prevent the transfer of electricity or sound

What is electric current?

• A device in which electric current is used to produce magnetism

• Energy caused by the movement of electric charges

• The flow of charges along a path

• The total energy of motion and position of an object

What is an electromagnet?

• The flow of charges along a path

• A device that makes an electric current by converting kinetic energy to electric energy

• A device that changes electrical energy into mechanical energy

• A device in which electric current is used to produce magnetism

The energy an object has due to its motion

• potential energy

• chemical energy

• electric energy

• kinetic energy

Parallel circuit

• a device in which electric current is used to produce magnetism

• energy that an object has because of its position or its condition

• a circuit which several different paths for electric charges to follow

• an electric circuit with only one path for electric charges to follow

Absorb

• to transmit energy

• the ability to cause changes in matter

• to take up and store energy

• the energy an object has due to its motion

What is static electricity?

• The total energy of motion and position of an object

• The flow of electric charges along a path

• The buildup of electric charges on an object

• Atoms with a negative charge

What is a series circuit?

• Energy that is stored in matter and that can be released by a chemical reaction

• A circuit with several different paths for electric charges to follow

• A device in which electric current is used to produce magnetism

• An electric circuit with only one path for electric charges to follow

What is potential energy?

• Energy that an object has because of its position or its condition

• The energy an object has due to its motion

• Energy that is stored in matter and that can be released by a chemical reaction

• Energy caused by the movement of electric charges

Term: generator What is a generator?

• a device that changes electrical energy into mechanical energy

• a device that makes an electric current by converting kinetic energy to electric energy

• A material that readily allows electric charges to pass through it

• a device in which electric current is used to produce magnetism