Science 9
Electricity Questions

1. Electricity is always on our mind. T, F, explain.

2. Describe four examples of power outage effects.

Forms of Electricity

3. Name the two forms of electricity.

4. What causes static electricity?

5. Describe a situation in which static electricity occurs.

6. a) Where are electrons located in the atom?
b) What is their charge?

7. a) What makes current electricity?
b) List some sources of electrons.

Static Electricity

8. Static electricity was being demonstrated as far back as when?

9. a) What materials were used in these demonstrations?
b) How were they used in the demonstrations?
c) What were the materials able to do during the demonstrations?

10. a) Who methodically studied materials that could attract bits of matter?
b) What materials did William Gilbert study?

11. What name was given to these types of materials?

12. Static charges are produced when what particles move from one body to another?

13. When glass is wiped across silk, which material: a) gains electrons? b) loses electrons?

14. As a result of the electrons moving, what charge is formed on: a) the glass b) the silk?

15. When plastic is wiped across fuzzy cloth, which material: a) gains electrons? b) loses electrons?

16. As a result of the electrons moving, what charge is formed on: a) the plastic b) the fuzzy cloth?

17. Since electrons are negatively charged, they make the body to which they move, ___, and the area which they leave becomes ___.

18. a) What does the law of charges state about the interaction of charges?
b) apply this law to the sweater - hair situation.

Conductors

19. Define: conductor.

20. What is a common example?

21. Apply this example to your home.

22. Name a conducting solution.

23. Electrons do not move easily between conductors in contact. T, F, explain.

24. a) Could a negative charge not build up on a piece of wire?
b) Explain what would happen to it.

Insulators

25. Define: insulator.

26. What are some common examples?

27. a) Could a negative charge not build up on a piece of plastic?
b) Would the charge last on the plastic?

28. A piece of plastic can hold many areas of negative charges. T, F, explain.

29. Explain when electrons can move on an insulator.

30. Again, if electrons leave a spot on the insulator, the negative charge there will ___, if electrons move onto that spot on the insulator, the negative charge there will ____.

Charge Balance

31. Explain what charge a material usually has.

32. The structure of the atom can be compared to what enormous area?

33. a) In the Solar System, the sun represents what part of the atom?
b) What part of the atom is represented by about the planets?

34. a) What particles are in the nucleus of the atom?
b) What particles circle around the nucleus?

35. In the atom, what particles are usually equal in number?

36. Make a sketch of the atom showing its contents and where they are located in it.

37. a) Whenever an atom absorbs extra electrons, what happens to the charge balance?
b) As a result, the material becomes ___ charged.
c) Why?

38. What is an example of Q. 37, showing the numbers of protons and electrons?

39. A bunch of electrons exert what force on each other?

40. a) What is a ground?
b) How might it affect the charge on an atom?

41. a) Why are static charges on paper a problem in printers and photocopiers?
b) How are the static charges on the paper controlled?

42. a) Whenever an atom loses electrons, what happens to the charge balance?
b) As a result, the material becomes ___ charged.
c) Why?

43. What is an example of Q. 42, showing the numbers of protons and electrons?

44. What does the ground do in this case?

Force Fields

45. What type of story often includes force fields?

46. Do force fields actually exist?

47. List some things real force fields do.

Electric Force Fields

48. What type of field surrounds an electric charge?

49. a) If charges are adjacent, what do their fields do?
b) What is the result of the fields interacting?

50. How can we map the shape of the magnetic field around a magnet?

51. But, how do we see the shape of electric force fields around electric charges?

52. Groups of charges create simple looking electric force fields. T, F, explain.

Lines of Force

53. What is the reason for drawing "lines of force" around an electric charge?

54. If the lines in the force field diagram are closely spaced, the electric field is ___.

55. There are how many basic shapes of force field diagrams?

56. Sketch the shape of the force field around:
a) an individual positive charge
b) an individual negative charge
c) a pair of positive charges
d) a pair of negative charges.

Van de Graff Generator

57. The behavior of intense electric charges is studied with what device?

58. When electrons leap from the device, they create what?

CRT

59. What does CRT stand for?

60. a) What particles fly around inside a CRT?
b) How does the CRT create the images we see on its screen?

Direct Current

61. The potential difference of a battery can be compared to what in your house?

62. a) Current flows from a battery as long as what is unequal at its ends?
b) When both ends of the battery are at the same potential difference, what happens to the current flow?
c) Potential difference is measured in what unit?

63. A current that flows steadily in one direction is called what?

Voltaic Cells

64. The process of obtaining electrical current from chemical reactions was discovered accidentally in the 1800's by whom?

65. a) What is a Voltaic cell?
b) What are the contents of a Voltaic cell?
c) How can we a Voltaic cell (dry cell) to so some work for us?

66. a) Contrast the terms "battery" and "dry cell".
b) Is a D cell a battery?
c) What about a 9 V battery?

67. a) Name four common sizes of dry cells and their voltages.
b) Name two brands of rechargeable household batteries.

Photoelectric Effect

68. How does light affect a photoelectric material?

Electric circuit

69. a) Name the parts of an electric circuit.
b) What is the purpose of the switch?
c) Current is measured in what unit?

Types of Electric Circuits

70. Name the two types of circuits.

71. a) Which type has just one route for the current?
b) Which one has different branches for the current to go through?

Electrical Power

72. a) What does the power rating of an electrical device tell us?
b) What is the unit for power?

Ohm's Law

73. Define: resistor.

74. What does a resister do to the current flowing through it?