Electricity and Magnets

You walk across the carpet on a cold, dry day.  When you touch a metal door knob, you see a spark of light and feel a small shock.  What form of energy have you just experienced?

• Magnetism

• Static Electricity

• Lightning

• Gravity

When you rub a balloon on your sleeve, it will stick to your sleeve.  This is an example of ___.

• Magnetism

• Sound Energy

• Static Electricity

• Gravity

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A positive and a negative charge will ___ each other.

• Attract

• Repel

A ___ is the movement of static electricity from one object to another.

• Current

• Circuit

• Discharge

• Static

Matching charges​ (a)   , but Opposite charges ​ (b)   .

• repel

• attract

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Charges that are different ​ ​ (a)   each other.

• attract

• repel

• cancel out

• multiply

• divide

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The transfer of negatively charged particles between materials is called (a)   .

• static electricity

• mechanical energy

• radiant energy

• thermal energy

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If an object is being pulled toward a magnet, what can we say about the object?

• It is being attracted.

• It is being repelled.

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Attract or Repel?

• Repel

• Attract

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Static electricity is caused when the ________ in two objects becomes unbalanced.

• Charges

• Motion