2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt Scientific Method Series Circuits Electro- magnetism College of Energy Knowledge Magnetism

The steps a scientist uses to solve a problem.

What is the Scientific Method?

The part of the Scientific Method that contains what you think will happen.

What is the Hypothesis?

The one thing you change in an experiment.

What is the Independent Variable?

The part of the Scientific Method that contains the data and explains what happened in the experiment.

What are the Results?

The part of the Scientific Method that answers the question: What did I find out?

What is the Analysis?

A wire, bulb and battery.

What 3 pieces of equipment are needed to make a series circuit?

The device often used to open and close a series circuit.

What is a switch?

The special attaching devices at both ends of this wire.

What are alligator clips?

VR S

What is the schematic or drawing for a series circuit?

Any material that does NOT allow electricity to flow through it.

What is an insulator?

The temporary magnet created when electricity flows through a wire that has been wrapped around a nail.

What is an electromagnet?

Telephones, electric motors, televisions and doorbells

What are some items that contain an electromagnet?

One change you can make to the wire on this electromagnet that would allow it to pick up more paper clips.

What would increasing the number of wraps of the wire do?

Another change you can make to this electromagnet that would allow it to pick up more paper clips.

What would increasing the strength of the battery do?

The strength of the battery used in the electromagnet lesson.

What is a 6-volt battery?

This material is the best conductor of electricity.

What is metal? gold platinum silver

ABCD This the correctly wired circuit. a b cd

What is circuit b? b

Plastic, glass, wood, rubber, and paper

What materials are good insulators?

This metal is not attracted to a magnet.

What is aluminum?

The name of this machine.

What is the Van de Graaff generator (static machine)?

The term for the ends of a magnet. SSNN

What are poles? SSNN

The term for two magnets pushing away when similar or the same poles are placed together. SNSN

What is repel? SNSN

The term to describe what these two magnets will do. SSNN

What is attract? SSNN

The parts of a magnet where the force is strongest. SN

What are the ends or poles? SN

A magnet is attracted to these three metals.

What are iron, cobalt and nickel? iron cobalt nickel