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Electricity Vocabulary
Practice Electricity Vocabulary
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5th Grade
11/14/2006

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Term
circuit
Definition
the path followed by an electric current
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conductor
Definition
a thing that transmits heat, electricity, light, sound, or other form of energy
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current
Definition
the movement or flow of electric charges
Term
electricity
Definition
a physical phenomenon caused by the movement of certain charged particles such as electrons, especially between points having different electrical charges, and seen in naturally occurring phenomena such as lightning and magnetic attraction and repulsion
Term
insulator
Definition
a material that electricity has a hard time moving through, if it can at all -- the opposite of a conductor
Term
switch
Definition
a device that completes or disconnects and electrical circuit
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battery
Definition
a single cell that furnishes electric current
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attract
Definition
to cause to come near, as by some special quality or action
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repel
Definition
to drive away or force backwards
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electromagnet
Definition
a magnet in which an iron or steel core is magnetized by the electric current in the coil of insulated wire wound around it
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