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This provides the source of electricity in a circuit.
What is a D-cell (battery)?
An item that hold many components needed to build a circuit
What is a circuit base?
A metal clip that connects wires in a circuit
What is a Fahnstock clip?
A component that uses electricity from a source to make something happen
What is an electricity receiver?
Two types of electricity receivers
What are a motor and a light bulb?
A push or pull
What is force?
An instrument with a freely moving magnetic needle to indicate direction
What is a compass?
An object that helps you identify or locate a magnetic source
What is a detector?
A type of rock that is naturally magnetic
What is magnetite (lodestone)?
The influence of a permanent magnet’s magnetic field on a piece of iron, which makes the iron act like a magnet
What is induced magnetism?
This type of wire is wrapped around a piece of iron to create an electromagnet
What is insulated wire?
A component used to open or close the path of electricity in an electromagnet
What is a switch?
A device created with an electromagnet that allows communication with Morse code
What is a telegraph?
In a telegraph, the space between the steel strip and an electromagnet
What is a gap?
The material around which a coil is wound
What is the core?
The pathway for the flow of electricty
What is a circuit?
An individual item in a circuit
What is a component?
The flow of electricity through a conductor
What is current?
Wire wound repeatedly around a central core
What is a coil?
Any substance, like copper or aluminum, through which electricity will flow
What is a conductor?
A complete circuit through which electricity flows
What is a closed circuit?
An incomplete circuit through which electricity will not flow
What is an open circuit?
A material that prevents the flow of electricity in a circuit, commonly plastic, rubber, or glass.
What is an insulator?
A circuit that splits in two or more pathways before coming together at the battery.
What is a parallel circuit?
A circuit with only one pathway for current to flow
What is a series circuit?
Make your wager
The material in a light bulb that produces light energy when receiving an electric current
What is the filament?