Electricity & Magnetism | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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What can have a positive charge or a negative charge?

Objects

What are particles?

Objects have tiny parts that can be exchanged with another object.

What is an imaginary line joining the two poles?

The magnetic axis

When an electric current flows through a piece of magnetic metal such as iron, it creates an....

Electromagnet

When an electric current flows through a coil it..

Generates a magnetic force

What is an object that attracts objects made of iron and other magnetic metals?

A magnet

What is the needle on a compass?

A magnet

What allow electrons to flow through them easily?

Conductors

What happens when there is a force that makes two objects move towards each other?

They attract each other

Particles that have an electrical charge are called....

electrons

What is the movement of electrically charged particles through a material?

An electric current

What can electric currents produce?

Light

What are materials that do not conduct electric current well?

Insulators

Objects that have an electrical charge...

Attract or repel each other

What happens when there is a force that makes objects move apart?

Electrically charged objects repel each other

Magnets can exert....

magnetic forces

When an electric current flows through a conductor it...

Can heat up

The electrons always move in the same direction is called...

A direct current

What are the two magnetic poles?`

North pole and South Pole

What happens when we rub a pen against a wool jumper and then hold the pen near some small pieces of paper?

The paper will stick to the pen. (the pen becomes electrically charged)

The Earth behaves like a....

giant magnet