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Electricity Vocab
8th grade science Forces
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Conductor | Object or type of material that permits the flow of electricity |
| Current | The rate at which charge flows past a point on a circuit |
| Electrical Field | Region around a charged particle within which a force would be exerted on other objects. |
| Electrical Force | Attractive or repulsive interaction between any 2 charged objects. |
| Electromagnetism | A magnetic field produced by a current of electricity. |
| Insulator | Materials that impeded the free flow of electons. Atom to atom or molecule to molecule. |
| Volt | The unit used for electrical potential energy |
| Voltage | Measures the energy carried by an electrical charge |