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Measuring Electricity

$100 Question Safety

True or False: You should use tacks, staples and nails when fastening extension cords in place

$100 Answer Safety

False

$200 Question Safety

This is a type of circuit that has no load and therefore is dangerous and can cause electrical fires.

$200 Answer Safety

Short Circuit

$300 Question Safety

Never mix this substance with electricity

$300 Answer Safety

Water

$400 Question Safety

This amount of amperes can cause death

$400 Answer Safety

0.05 – 0.1 A – heart stops pumping

$500 Question Safety

What does this symbol stand for?

$500 Answer Safety

Canadian Standards Association

$100 Question Generating Electricity

This current is found in a battery

$100 Answer Generating Electricity

Direct current

$200 Question Generating Electricity

True of False: Fossil fuels are used to generate electricity

$200 Answer Generating Electricity

True – used to heat water to usesteam to turn turbines

$300 Question Generating Electricity

List 3 other ways to generateelectricity

$300 Answer Generating Electricity

Nuclear power, Solar, Wind, Water

$400 Question Generating Electricity

What is alternating current?

$400 Answer Generating Electricity

AC is the back and forth movement of electrons through a wire

$500 Question Generating Electricity

Describe how you could easily generate electricity

$500 Answer Generating Electricity

Passing a magnet in and out of acoiled wire

$100 Question from Circuits

These travel through electric circuits

$100 Answer from Circuits

Electrons

$200 Question from Circuits

What are the three things neededto make a complete circuit?

$200 Answer from Circuits

Energy source, load and connecting conductors

$300 Question from Circuits

When the lights are off, the circuit is what?

$300 Answer from Circuits

Open circuit

$400 Question from Circuits

Draw two lights in a series circuit

$400 Answer from Circuits

Only one path for the electrons

$500 Question from Circuits

Draw a schematic diagram of a light and a resistor in parallel circuit with an open switch

$500 Answer from Circuits

Two paths for the electrons

$100 Question from Measuring Electricity

The flow of electrons is called this, just like water in a river

$100 Answer from Measuring Electricity

Current

$200 Question from Measuring Electricity

This device would be used to measure potential difference

$200 Answer from Measuring Electricity

Voltmeter

$300 Question from Measuring Electricity

Draw the symbol for Ohms (resistance)

$300 Answer from Measuring Electricity

Ω

$400 Question from Measuring Electricity

How do you use a voltmeter to measure volts?(where would you put the voltmeter?)

$400 Answer from Measuring Electricity

You put it ACROSS the circuit(not in it)

$500 Question from Measuring Electricity

What was the name of the deviceused to measure the electricity created by your generator in the lab?

$500 Answer from Measuring Electricity

Galvanometer

$100 Question from In Your Home

What are fuses made of?

$100 Answer from In Your Home

Conductors that have a low melting point

$200 Question from In Your Home

What is the benefit of a circuit breaker?

$200 Answer from In Your Home

You don’t have to replace it like a fuse

$300 Question from In Your Home

True or False: An appliance is aresistor?

$300 Answer from In Your Home

True

$400 Question from In Your Home

Adding more resistors in parallel does what to the current?

$400 Answer from In Your Home

Increases it

$500 Question from In Your Home

Name 3 things ways you can practice electrical safety at home

$500 Answer from In Your Home

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Final Jeopardy

Using the materials provided for each group, create a circuit that has 3 light bulbs in parallel

Final Jeopardy Answer

All three need to be in parallel and light up