Form 2 Chapter 7.1

When you brush your hair you scrape off electrons, and your hair

• becomes positively charged
• becomes negatively charged
• becomes positively and negatively charged
• remains uncharged, or neutral

As a pair of charges is brought close together, the force between them

• Increases
• Decreases
• Increases only if they are the same sign
• Increases only if they are the opposite sign

What does it mean when the electric field lines are close together?

• the field is positive
• the field is negative
• The field is strong
• the field is weak

Electric charges that are alike _______ each other.

• Attract

• Repel

An object with equal amounts of positive and negative charge is called:

• positively charged

• negatively charged

• electrically charged

• neutral