 Watch the Bill Nye Video and answer the corresponding questions.

 1. What is electricity?  2. What is an electrical circuit?  3. How does electricity make a bumper car go?  4. Give an example of an electrical circuit.  5. Where does electricity come from?

 All atoms in matter always contain electrical charges. ( Positive and Negative)  Electric Charge – a form of charge, either positive or negative, that exerts an electric force.  When objects of different materials are rubbed together they become “charged” with electricity.

 A build up of electric charge on the surface of an object.  When clothes are in the dryer, many times the electric charge remains “static.” This means that the charge stays where the rubbing action occurred on each of the charged objects.  * This is why we use Bounce sheets in the dryer.

 These sheets act as a lubricant of sort for your clothes.  You cannot eliminate these electrical charges completely but you can minimize them.  Companies put in a waxy compound in sheets of Bounce or Cling Free and liberated by the dryer's heat.

 Two objects with like charges, whether positive or negative, always repel one another.  When a positively charged object is near a negatively charged object, they attract one another.  Law: “Like charges repel another, and unlike charges attract one another.”

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