Question | Answer |
What are the two forms of electricity? | Static and current electricity. |
What are the 3 parts to every atom? | Protons, electrons and neutrons. |
What do the protons electrons and neutrons do? | The protons and neutrons stay clumped together in the centre of the atom while the electrons move around the outside. |
What is in a balanced atom? | In a balanced atom the number of protons equal the number of electrons. |
What happens when the electrons move to a different atom? | The atom becomes positively charged. |
What happens to the atom that has more electrons? | The atom becomes negatively charged. |
How do atoms rebalance themselves? | As soon as they can they will "jump" to another atom to rebalance themselves. |
What happens when they don't jump soon enough? | The electrons will eventually fade into the atmosphere. |
What happens when you rub silk against a balloon? | The electrons will move from the silk to the balloon. Then the balloon becomes negatively charged and the silk becomes positively charged. |
What part of the atom can only move? | |