Electricity I Study Sheet

Name:_______________

Date:__________

1. An electric current is generated when a coil of wire is moved in a _________ ________.

2. Most electric current is produced by _________.

3. The most commonly used fuels to generate electricity are the _______ ________.

4. ___________ generators use falling water to turn the blades of a turbine.

5. The fuel used to power a nuclear power plant is ________ _____.

6. ________ is a uranium by-product used to make nuclear weapons.

7. A __________ is a device that changes heat energy into electricity.

8. Elements such as ________, ________ and _______release electrons when exposed to light.

9. _______ ______ are used to recharge the batteries found in solar powered calculators.

10. The main limitation to solar cells is_______________________.

11. Electricity is most efficiently transported at _________ voltage and ________ amps.

12. Transformers step-up and step-down voltage through _________.

13. __________ discovered that an alternating current in one circuit will induce an alternating current in another circuit.

14. Transformers only work on __________ current.

15. The _______coil delivers the electric current to an iron core.

16. Electric current is induced in the _________ coil.

17. If the number of loops in the primary and secondary coils are equal, the induced voltage in the secondary coil will be the _______ as that in the primary coil.

18. If there are more loops in the secondary coil than in the primary coil, the voltage in the secondary coil will be _______ than the voltage in the primary coil.

19. If there are more loops in the primary coil than the secondary coil, this is a step-_________ transformer.

20. The part of the cell where electrons collect is called the ____________ terminal.

21. The part of the cell toward which the electrons move is called the ________ terminal.

22. The SI unit for current is the _________.

23. The SI unit for resistance is the ______.

24. Energy supplied per coulomb of charge passing through a conductor is called _________.

25. Energy removed per coulomb of charge passing through a cell is called ________.

26. A _______ is used to measure current.

27. A ________ is used to measure voltage drop.

28. A ________ contains two or more cells.

29. ________ is the kind of current commonly used for household appliances.

30. ________ is the kind of current in which the electrons move in one direction.

31. _________ is the SI unit for charge.

32. A circuit in which the path is unbroken is called a _________ circuit.

33. The SI unit for voltage is _______.

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