1. Ch 6 Review
A circuit with a switch turned to the OFF position or a circuit with any break is called:
Open circuit

2. Suppose you are trying to help someone gain a better understanding of electric circuits. If you compare an electrical circuit to a system that carries water, what would the water pipes represent?
wires

3. Positive electric charges:
Attract both positive and negative charges
Repel positive charges and attract negative charges
Repel both positive and negative charges
Repel negative charges and attract positive charges B

4. A fundamental property of matter that comes in two forms.
Electric charge

5. What property of matter gives rise to both electricity and magnetism?
charge

6. Electric charge that has accumulated on an object is referred to as ____.
Static electricity

7. A material through which electrons do NOT easily flow is a(n) ____.
insulators

8. Lightning is natural form of ____.
Static electricity

9. A path through which electric charges may travel
circuit

10. A shorthand method to represent the arrangement of the parts in a circuit
Circuit diagram

11. A device that may be used to identify the sign and quantity of charge on a body
electroscope

12. A device that may be used to stop and start the flow of electricity in a circuit
Switch

13. A unit of electric charge
Coulomb

14. Excess of electrons
Negative charge

15. Identified principles of electric motor
Michael Faraday

16. Equal numbers of protons and electrons
Neutral charge

17. ***
Perfected the light bulb
Thomas Edison

18. This individual assigned positive and negative values to electricity
Ben Franklin

19. excess of protons
Positive charge

20. List a good conductor
Metal

21. Name an insulator
Wood, Plastic, Rubber

22. Which of the circuits pictured below is an open circuit?

23. What is the charge on the object pictured below?
0 or Neutral

24. Why do clothes snap, crackle, and pop when you remove them from the dryer?
Static electricity is built up in the dryer as the clothes tumble around.