Quiz

Electricity
 What is static electricity?
 Static electricity rise because of what?
 Where does the charges come from?
 Is electricity similar to magnetism? (Explain using charges)
 What are the examples of static electricity?
 What do we hear after a flash of lightning?
 When we don’t rub the balloon is it charged?
 Can charged objects attract other objects?
 What is electrical attraction?
 Can charged objects repel each other? (Give example)
 Is atom a neutral object?
 When are charges shown?
 Can the objects with an electrical charge attract or repel each other?
 Is earth a magnet?
 What are the rules of attraction and repulsion for magnetic poles?
 How could you test whether a plastic rod has been given an electric
charge would attract or repel a magnet? Describe your method and
include a diagram. What result would you except to observe?
 When people started to begin studying electricity?
 What Otto Van did?
 What is the format of two types of electric charge?
 Draw a diagram to show what happens when two negatively charged
balls are hung next to each other.
 Why do we use coulombmeter?
 Who was Coulomb?
 What force causes an object to become charged when it’s rubbed?
 What happens when a polythene rod is rubbed with wool?
 What happens when an acrylic rod is rubbed with cotton?
 What charge will the cloth have when it has been used to rub an acrylic
rod?
 All substances are made up of what?
 An atom is usually described as neutral. What does this tell you about the
amounts of – and + charge in an atom?
 Explain why the nucleus and electrons attract each other?
 Why do electrons move from the rod to the cloth?
 Use the same idea to explain why a polythene rod gains a negative charge
when it’s rubbed with a cloth.
 What are atoms made up of?
 What sign does nucleus have?
 If you hold a charged balloon near a scrap of paper, it will attract it. Why
is this?
 When J.J Thompson did discovered electrons?
 Do atoms have electrons?
 If you put two electrons next to each other, would they attract or repel
each other?
 Do capsicum have electrons? Are they attracted or repelled by a charged
rod?
 Are the metal wires covered with plastic? And why?
 Metals are described as what?
 What are conductors and insulators?
 What is electric current?
 Electricity is what kind of word?
 Why the lamp lights up?
 What makes a current flow?
 What are the two things needed for the current to flow?
 What breaks a circuit?
 Current flows from which terminal?
 Electrons flow from where?
 Why components have circuit symbols? (Describe the three ways)
 Each symbol is labeled with what of the component?
 How are wires shown in the diagram?
 Which part of the symbol for a cell represents the positive end, the long
line or the short line?
 Are metals good conductors? Are non-metals insulators?
 What does the current in the lamp shows?
 Why is ammeter used? What is its symbol? It is connected to which
circuit?
 Does the current divides in series circuit?
 Does long wire affect the amount of the current?
 Does series have loop?
 In the series, if one component will not work then will the whole circuit
work?
 Does the current get used up as it goes round an electric current?
 In a series circuit, an ammeter shows that the current leaving the positive
end of a cell is 0.5A. What current flows into the negative end of a cell?
 A circuit with the components connected end-to-end is called?
 Which vitamin is taken from the sun?
 Convention is about what?
 Bad conductors allow how much of the electricity to pass through?
 An electric current can flow to what?
 Which is bigger, an atom or an electron?
 What charge do electron and protons have?
 What charge would attract an electron?
 Explain how metals are useful materials.
 What makes the current flow in a metal wire?
 How a cell makes a current flow? (Using the electrons theory)
 Do charged object attract neutral object?
 In Static electricity where does the charges appear?
 A cell can make a buzzer buzz.
 Explain why the buzzer starts to buzz as soon as the circuit is complete.
 What energy changes are happening in this circuit?
 What is the format of the current and energy? (Explain all 3)
 What pushes electrons round a circuit?
 Do electrical appliances use cells?
 Does increasing the number of cell, increases the brightness?
 What would you observe if the torch had only one cell?
 Cells are labelled with what?
 What is meant by voltage? What is its sign?
 Why is a voltmeter used?
 Does two or more cells connected in series, add up the voltage?
 If you connect cells back to front (+ to + and – and -), will they voltages
add or cancel out?
 If the torch in the photograph above had two cells, each labelled with
1.2V, what would be the voltage?
 What is chemical energy?
 If the voltage is bigger then will the current be bigger?
 Does adding more cells to the series circuit increases the current?
 What happens when we add other components to a series circuit?
 How could you change the circuit to make the lamps brighter?
 Iron has less or more resistance?
 What is meant by resistance?
 How many kinds of resistors are there? ( Explain all three)
 Variable resistor is known as what?
 When two components are connected in a series, is it harder to push the
current?
 Draw a circuit diagram to show a circuit with 2 cells+ 2 resistors +
Ammeter connected in series.
 Explain why the current would be bigger if there was only one resistor.
 What is meant by parallel circuit? Does the current divides?
 If each resistor has a current of 0.5A flowing through it, what current
would the ammeter show?
 Differentiate between parallel and series circuit.