Jeopardy Vocabulary Circuit Measurements CircuitsElectric Charge Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy Misc.

$100 Question – Vocabulary Objects such as plastic, glass and wood that do not allow current to easily pass.

$100 Answer – Vocabulary What is an insulator?

$200 Question – Vocabulary An object such as carbon, germanium or silicon which allows some current to pass.

$200 Answer – Vocabulary What is a semiconductor?

$300 Question – Vocabulary A circuit in which there is a break or the switch is in the OFF position.

$300 Answer – Vocabulary What is an open circuit?

$400 Question – Vocabulary A parallel path in a circuit with very low resistance which is very dangerous.

$400 Answer – Vocabulary What is short circuit?

$500 Question – Vocabulary A device that protects circuits from too much current by making a break that stops the current.

$500 Answer – Vocabulary What is a circuit breaker or fuse?

$100 Question – Circuit Measurements Comes from the motion of charged particles, measured in amperes.

$100 Answer – Circuit Measurements What is current?

$200 Question – Circuit Measurements Electrical potential energy is measured in this.

$200 Answer – Circuit Measurements What is volts?

$300 Question – Circuit Measurements Measured in

$300 Answer – Circuit Measurements What is resistance?

$400 Question – Circuit Measurements The resistance of a hair dryer which draws 10 A of current when plugged into a 120 V outlet.

$400 Answer – Circuit Measurements What is 12 Ohms?

$500 Question – Circuit Measurements The current flowing in a digital camera which uses volt batteries and the flash has a resistance of 3 ohms.

$500 Answer – Circuit Measurements What is 2 amps?

$100 Question – Circuits A circuit that has only one path.

$100 Answer – Circuits What is a series circuit?

$200 Question – Circuits A circuit in which current has more than one path.

$200 Answer – Circuits What is a parallel circuit?

$300 Question – Circuits In a series circuit, each additional bulb or resistor creates this to happen to resistance.

$300 Answer – Circuits What is resistance increases?

$400 Question – Circuits In a parallel circuit, adding resistors in additional branches causes this to happen to overall resistance.

$400 Answer – Circuits What is a decrease in resistance?

$500 Question – Circuits Electrical outlets in bathrooms, kitchens or outdoors are required to have these.

$500 Answer – Circuits What are GFI outlets (ground fault interrupt outlets)?

$100 Question – Electric Charge The unit of charge.

$100 Answer – Electric Charge What is the coulomb?

$200 Question – Electric Charge Objects with zero net charge are called this.

$200 Answer – Electric Charge What is electrically neutral?

$300 Question – Electric Charge An imbalance of either positive or negative charges on an object is the cause of this.

$300 Answer – Electric Charge What is static electricity?

$400 Question – Electric Charge What happens when two positively charged objects are brought near eachother.

$400 Answer – Electric Charge What is repel?

$500 Question – Electric Charge The transfer of electrons from one object to another by rubbing.

$500 Answer – electric charge What is charging by friction?

$100 Question – Miscellaneous Ohm’s law helps find this when you know voltage and resistance.

$100 Answer – Miscellaneous What is current?

$200 Question – Miscellaneous This describes what happens to the electric force as charges move further apart.

$200 Answer – Miscellaneous What is gets weaker?

$300 Question – Miscellaneous The peak voltages of VAC in homes and businesses alternates between these values.

$300 Answer – Miscellaneous What is +170 V and -170 V?

$400 Question – Miscellaneous The energy transfers found when using a hairdryer (name at least 3 types).

$400 Answer – Miscellaneous What is electrical, heat, sound and mechanical?

$500 Question – Miscellaneous The # of 1.5 volt batteries needed for an I-pod that requires 2.5A of current and has a resistance of 3.6 ohms.

$500 Answer – Miscellaneous What is 6 batteries?

Final Jeopardy Energy Costs You watch a 750 watt television for 3 hours. The amount (rounded to the nearest cent) it costs you to watch TV if the utility company charges $0.54 per kilowatt hour.

Final Jeopardy Answer What is $1.22?