Ch 6 Review

• A circuit with a switch turned to the OFF position or a circuit with any break is called:

• Open circuit

• Suppose you are trying to help someone gain a better understanding of electric circuits. If you compare an electrical circuit to a system that carries water, what would the water pipes represent?

• wires

• Positive electric charges:A. Attract both positive and negative

chargesB. Repel positive charges and attract

negative chargesC. Repel both positive and negative chargesD. Repel negative charges and attract

positive charges

• B

• A fundamental property of matter that comes in two forms.

• Electric charge

• What property of matter gives rise to both electricity and magnetism?

• charge

• Electric charge that has accumulated on an object is referred to as ____.

• Static electricity

• A material through which electrons do NOT easily flow is a(n) ____.

• insulators

• Lightning is natural form of ____.• Static electricity

• A path through which electric charges may travel

• circuit

• A shorthand method to represent the arrangement of the parts in a circuit

• Circuit diagram

• A device that may be used to identify the sign and quantity of charge on a body

• electroscope

• A device that may be used to stop and start the flow of electricity in a circuit

• Switch

• A unit of electric charge• Coulomb

• Excess of electrons• Negative charge

• Identified principles of electric motor

• Michael Faraday

• Equal numbers of protons and electrons

• Neutral charge

• ***• Perfected the light bulb• Thomas Edison

• This individual assigned positive and negative values to electricity

• Ben Franklin

• excess of protons• Positive charge

• List a good conductor• Metal

• Name an insulator• Wood, Plastic, Rubber

• Which of the circuits pictured below is an open circuit?

• A

• What is the charge on the object pictured below?

• 0 or Neutral

• Why do clothes snap, crackle, and pop when you remove them from the dryer?

• Static electricity is built up in the dryer as the clothes tumble around.