Vocabulary True or False Is it magnetic? Fill in The Blank Magnet Mix Up
Lodestone
What is a natural magnet?
DAILY DOUBLE You can see and feel its effects, but it is actually invisible.
What is the magnetic field?
It is a giant magnet.
What is the earth?
It has a small magnet in the needle that points it towards magnetic north.
What is a compass?
This and magnetism are similar to one another.
What is electricity?
All magnets have the same strength.
False. The strength of magnets vary.
Unlike poles on a magnet attract.
True. Unlike poles attract to one another.
DAILY DOUBLE Magnets attract to pennies.
DAILY DOUBLE False. Pennies do not contain the metal that attracts to magnets.
Lodestone is a temporary magnet.
False. Lodestone is a permanent magnet.
A south pole on a magnet will attract to another south pole on a different magnet.
False. Two similar poles don’t attract.
Glass
Not magnetic
A magnet
Definitely magnetic
Iron
Definitely magnetic
DAILY DOUBLE Gold
DAILY DOUBLE Not magnetic
Plastic
Not magnetic
The strength of a magnet can ___________.
Vary
Electricity and ______________ are similar.
Magnetism
The north pole of a magnet will attract to the ___________________ of another magnet.
South Pole
DAILY DOUBLE Magnetic _________ can go through many materials.
DAILY DOUBLE Force
The attraction between two magnets decreases as the distance between them _____________.
increases
Why does it take more washers to separate two magnets with no spacers in between them, than it does with 4 spacers?
Because the magnetic force field is not being interrupted or broken when there are no spacers.
DAILY DOUBLE Suppose you hold 2 magnets over 2 different nails. One attracts to the magnet, and the other one doesn’t~ Why?
The nail that doesn’t attract is not made with a metal that attracts to a magnet.
Name the 3 metals magnets attract to
Iron, Nickel, and Cobalt
Suppose you’re holding 2 magnets and you try to stick them together, but they are repelling. Why would they do this?
They would only repel if you were attempting to have 2 of the same poles attract.
Where is a magnet’s force field the strongest?
At its poles
Why does it take more washers to separate two magnets with no spacers in between them, than it does with 4 spacers?
Because the magnetic force field is not being interrupted or broken when there are no spacers.
DAILY DOUBLE Suppose you hold 2 magnets over 2 different nails. One attracts to the magnet, and the other one doesn’t~ Why?
They would only repel if you were attempting to have 2 of the same poles attract.
Name the 3 metals magnets attract to
Iron, Nickel, and Cobalt.
Suppose you’re holding 2 magnets and you try to stick them together, but they are repelling. Why would they do this?
They would only repel if you were attempting to have 2 of the same poles attract.
Where is a magnet’s force field the strongest?
At its poles