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Electricity - 8th Grade Class

Total questions: 58
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1. Static Electricity

a) charges built up on an object - at rest b) the accumulation of excess electric charge on

an object

c) electric charge at rest; generally produced by

friction or induction

2. When do objects become charged?

a) when they gain or lose electrons b) When electrons move onto them or off of
them

3. In the law of electric charges, what do like charges do?

a) repel b) attract

4. In the law of electric charges, what do opposite charges do?

a) repel b) attract

5. What are 3 ways objects become charged?

a) Friction, Induction, Conduction b) Insulation, Terminal, Voltage

c) Twist Locking, Polarization, Fuse

6. What is Friction?

a) A force that opposes motion b) A force that opposes motion between two
surfaces that are in contact

c) Rubbing objects together causes an

exchange of electrons.
7. What is induction?

a) a charged object will exert its field on another b) the resistance that one surface or object
object causing it to become charged just by encounters when moving over another.
putting the objects near each other

c) direct contact and transfer of electrons to a

conducting material

8. What is Conduction?

a) direct contact and transfer of electrons to a b) a charged object will exert its field on another
conducting material object causing it to become charged just by
putting the objects near each other

c) the resistance that one surface or object

encounters when moving over another.

9. What is Discharge

a) when static electricity is released b) when static electricity is contained

c) when static electricity is divided

10. What is an example of discharged static electricity?

a) lightening strike b) thunder

c) tournado d) hurricane

11. How do charges move in different materials?

a) Induction & Conduction b) Insulation & Friction

c) Friction & Conduction d) Magnetic poles and voltages

12. How do charges move in induction?

a) a material in which electrical charges DO b) a material in which electrical charges MOVE

NOT MOVE FREELY from one place to FREELY from one place to another
another

13. How do charges move during Conduction?

a) a material in which electrical charges MOVE b) a material in which electrical charges DO

FREELY from one place to another NOT MOVE FREELY from one place to
another
14. What is Current Electricity

a) when electron (charges) move in the same b) when electron (charges) move in the
direction opposite direction

c) when electron (charges) move in a criss- d) when electron (charges) move in a parallel
cross direction direction

15. What is Electric Current?

a) the rate at which electrons flow past a given b) the rate at which protons flow past a given
point point

c) the rate at which neutrons flow past a given

point

16. Example of DC ( Direct Current)

a) batteries b) home outlets

c) extension cord

17. Example of AC (alternating current)

a) home outlets b) batteries

c) extension cord

18. What is voltage?

a) potential difference between tow points b) the opposition presented by a material or

measured in volts push behind the current. device to a current

c) The difference in electrical potential energy

between two places in a circuit.

19. What is resistance?

a) the opposition presented by a material or b) potential difference between tow points

device to a current measured in volts push behind the current.

c) The difference in electrical potential energy

between two places in a circuit.
20. Ohms Law formula?

a) Voltage=resistance (OHMS) x current (Amps) b) Resistance (OHMS)= Voltage x current

(Amps)

c) Current (Amps) = Voltage x Resistance

(Ohms)

21. In the Ohms Law, what happens if the voltage is increased?

a) the current is increased b) the current is decreased

c) the current remains the same

22. In the Ohms Law, what happens if the resistance is increased?

a) the current is decreased b) the current is increased

c) the current remains the same

23. What is a cell?

a) a device that converts chemical energy or b) a device that converts electric energy into
radiant energy into electric energy chemical or radiant energy

24. What is a dry cell?

a) paste or solid chemical b) liquid chemical

c) gaseous chemical

25. Example of dry cell?

a) AA, AAA, D Batteries b) Car Battery

26. Example of a wet cell?

a) Car battery b) AA, AAA, D Batteries

27. What is a wet cell?

a) liquid chemical b) past or solid chemical

c) gaseous chemical
28. What is a Circuit?

a) complete or closed path through which b) a path for an electrical current to flow around
electricity flows (closed circuit)

29. 3 parts to a circuit?

a) energy source, resistor, conductor b) wires, electricity, insulator

c) insulation, friction, conductor d) energy source, insulation, friction

30. What is a simple circuit?

a) wire, power source, and only one load b) a circuit in which the parts are joined one
after another such that the current in each
part is the same-one path to follow through all
loads

c) a circuit in which there are multiple pathways

for current, each load has its own path to and
from the battery

31. What is a series circuit?

a) a circuit in which the parts are joined one b) wire, power source, and only one load
after another such that the current in each
part is the same-one path to follow through all
loads

c) a circuit in which there are multiple pathways

for current, each load has its own path to and
from the battery

32. What is a Parallel circuit?

a) a circuit in which there are multiple pathways b) a circuit in which the parts are joined one
for current, each load has its own path to and after another such that the current in each
from the battery part is the same - one path to follow through
all loads

c) wire, power source, and only one load

33. What were the earliest naturally found magnets known as?

a) magnetite or lodestone b) ferrite or neodymium

c) samarium or cobalt
34. What do all magnets have?

a) a north and south pole b) an east and west pole

35. What do like poles do?

a) repel b) attract

36. What do unlike poles do?

a) repel b) attract

37. A magnetic ______ surrounds all magnets and can exert a magnetic ______

a) field , force b) force , field

c) current , pulse d) pulse , current

38. Where is a magnetic field the strongest?

a) at the poles b) at the base

c) at the charge

39. What are magnetic material having aligned domains (areas of electrons oriented in the same
direction?

a) iron, nickel, colvault b) aluminimum, ore, iron

c) ore, nickel, aluminimum

40. In substances that are not magnetized, domains are _______?

a) random b) consistant

c) pararell

41. Types of Magnets:

a) permanent, temporary, electromagnet b) random, perpendicular, temporary

c) electromagnet, charged, neutral

42. What is a permanent magnet?

a) retain strong magnetic qualities and are hard b) only possess magnetic qualities while in the
to re-magnetize field of another magnetic field

c) a temporary magnetic created by the flow of

electrons along a circuit

43. What is a temporary magnet?

a) only possess magnetic qualities while in the b) retain strong magnetic qualities and are hard
field of another magnetic field to re-magnetize

c) a temporary magnetic created by the flow of

electrons along a circuit

44. What is an electromagnet?

a) only possess magnetic qualities while in the b) a temporary magnetic created by the flow of
field of another magnetic field electrons along a circuit

c) retain strong magnetic qualities are hard to

re-magnetize

45. Example of a permanent magnet?

a) bar magnets b) soft iron such as nails, paperclips

46. Example of a temporary magnet?

a) soft iron such as nails, paperclips b) bar magnets

47. What is a solenoid?

a) a coil of wire attached to a battery that b) a coil of wire attached to a battery and then
creates a weak magnetic field around the wrapped around an iron core
current

48. What is an electromagnet?

a) a coil of wire attached to a battery and then b) a coil of wire attached to a battery that
wrapped around an iron core creates a weak magnetic field around the
current
49. 3 ways to increase the strength of an electro magnet?

a) increasing the number of coils in the wire, b) decreasing the number of coils in the wire,
increasing the voltage in the circuit by adding decreasing the voltage in the circuit by
more batteries, increase the size of the iron adding more batteries, decrease the size of
core the iron core

c) keep the same number of coils in the wire,

keep the same voltage in the circuit by
adding more batteries, keep the size of the
iron core

50. Increasing the number of coils in the wire will increase the strength of the electromagnet?

a) True b) False

51. Increasing the voltage in the circuit by adding more batteries, will increase the strength of the
electromagnet?

a) True b) False

52. Increasing the size of the iron core will increase the strength of the electromagnet?

a) True b) False

53. Decreasing the voltage in a circuit by adding more batteries will increase the strength of the
electromagnet?

a) True b) False

54. Decreasing the size of the iron core will increase the strength of an electromagnet?

a) True b) False

55. Earth's magnetic field is mostly caused by electric currents in the liquid core, which is composed of
___?

a) iron b) ore

c) aluminimum d) nickel
56. Earth looks like a big magnet with a ____and _____ pole like any other magnet

a) north, south b) east, west

c) postive and negative

57. The Earths Magnetic poles are the reverse of the geographic poles. This is why the North end of a
______ needle will point to geographic North.

a) Compass b) Space

c) Metal

58. When the North end of a compass needle points to geographic North, what is it attracted to?

a) magnetic south b) magnetic north

c) magnetic west d) magnetic east

Answer Keys

1. a) charges built up on an 2. a) when they gain or lose 3. a) repel

object - at rest electrons

4. b) attract 5. a) Friction, Induction, 6. c) Rubbing objects together

Conduction causes an exchange of
electrons.

7. a) a charged object will 8. a) direct contact and 9. a) when static electricity is

exert its field on another transfer of electrons to a released
object causing it to conducting material
become charged just by
putting the objects near
each other

10. a) lightening strike 11. a) Induction & Conduction 12. a) a material in which
electrical charges DO
NOT MOVE FREELY
from one place to
another

13. a) a material in which 14. a) when electron (charges) 15. a) the rate at which
electrical charges move in the same electrons flow past a
MOVE FREELY from direction given point
one place to another

16. a) batteries 17. a) home outlets 18. a) potential difference

between tow points
measured in volts push
behind the current.

19. a) the opposition 20. a) Voltage=resistance 21. a) the current is increased

presented by a material (OHMS) x current
or device to a current (Amps)

22. a) the current is decreased 23. a) a device that converts 24. a) paste or solid chemical
chemical energy or
radiant energy into
electric energy

25. a) AA, AAA, D Batteries 26. a) Car battery 27. a) liquid chemical
28. a) complete or closed path 29. a) energy source, resistor, 30. a) wire, power source, and
through which electricity conductor only one load
flows (closed circuit)

31. a) a circuit in which the 32. a) a circuit in which there 33. a) magnetite or lodestone
parts are joined one are multiple pathways
after another such that for current, each load
the current in each part has its own path to and
is the same-one path to from the battery
follow through all loads

34. a) a north and south pole 35. a) repel 36. b) attract

37. a) field , force 38. a) at the poles 39. a) iron, nickel, colvault

40. a) random 41. a) permanent, temporary, 42. a) retain strong magnetic

electromagnet qualities and are hard to
re-magnetize

43. a) only possess magnetic 44. b) a temporary magnetic 45. a) bar magnets
qualities while in the created by the flow of
field of another electrons along a circuit
magnetic field

46. a) soft iron such as nails, 47. a) a coil of wire attached 48. a) a coil of wire attached
paperclips to a battery that creates to a battery and then
a weak magnetic field wrapped around an iron
around the current core

49. a) increasing the number 50. a) True 51. a) True

of coils in the wire,
increasing the voltage
in the circuit by adding
more batteries, increase
the size of the iron core

52. a) True 53. b) False 54. b) False

55. a) iron 56. a) north, south 57. a) Compass

58. a) magnetic south