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Ch 7 electricity
science 9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| electric charge that can be collected and held in ONE PLACE | static electricity |
| a material that does NOT allow electric charges to move easily | insulators |
| a material that does ALLOW electric charges to move easily | conductors |
| a type of PLASTIC used in photographic film and overhead transparencies that can hold static charge | acetate |
| UNIT for measuring charge | coulomb |
| particles of an atom that are NEGATIVELY charged | electrons |
| particles of an atom that are POSTIVE charged | protons |
| when a atom has EQUAL amount of negative (electrons) and postive (protons) charges it is uncharged or ..... | neutral |
| allowing charge to flow into EARTH'S surface is .... | grounding |
| A DEVICE that uses fricton to produce a large static charge | Van de Graaff generator |
| If a electron is REMOVED from a neutral atom what is the charge left on the atom? | postive charge |
| If a electron is ADDED to a neutral atom what is the charge left on the atom? | negative charge |