Understanding of Magnetism and Electricity - Questions

Competency Goal 3: Students will have an understanding of magnetism and electricity.

Questions:

1.  A bar magnet pulls the strongest ____________________.

2.  A coil of wire wrapped around a core and connected to a battery is _________.

3.  What is the path for electric current?

4.  A current in a wire can overpower the earth’s magnetic field to change the direction of a compass.

5.  The part of the light bulb that glows is the _________________.

6.  Electricity will not flow through ______________________.

7.  If one bulb in a set of Christmas lights burns out, the whole set goes out. This describes a _________________circuit.

8.  The flow of electricity can produce ________________________.

9. If you are in a field you should do what in a lightning storm?

10.  An electric current was first generated in 1831 by Michael Faraday. He moved a magnet in and out of a coil of wire and found that this made an electric current flow through the wire. His discovery led to the invention of the ____________________.