Current Electricity and Magnetism

Any type of object through which an electric current cannot flow

• Conductor

• Insulator

An electric circuit is ________________.

• a continuous pathway that can carry an electric current

• An open pathway that can carry electric current

• An object that resists the flow of energy

• An object that attracts metal

Resistance is ___________________.

• The build up of electrical charges in one place

• how much a material opposes, or resists, the flow of electric current

• a conductor

• when the electric current can flow freely through a circuit

A conductor is _______________________.

• a material that resists the flow of electricity

• a material through which heat and electricity flow easily

• a material that insulates the circuit

• a material that produces electricity

An electric field is ____________________.

• Where a resister is placed in a circuit

• a parallel circuit

• the area around electric charges, where electric forces can act

• a series circuit

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An electric circuit with only one path for current is called a ______________.

• parallel circuit

• insulator

• series circuit

• resistor

A flow of electric charges is  ____________.

• an insulator

• a circuit

• a conductor

• an electric current

A flaw in a circuit that allows a large current to flow through where it isn't wanted is called _____________.

• an open circuit

• an insulator

• a conductor

• a short circuit

An electric circuit with two or more paths for current is called ______________________.

• a parallel circuit

• a series circuit

• a short circuit

• an open circuit

What is the property of matter which causes two like charges to repel each other?

• electric field

• electric circuit

• electric charge

• electromagnet

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