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| What is a unit of measure of electric power? | Watt or kilowatt |
| A unit of measure of an electric current is called what? | Amp |
| Energy stored in batteries is what form of energy? | Chemical |
| What does MPG stand for? | miles per gallon |
| What does BTU stand for? | British Thermal Unit |
| What does KWH stand for? | Kilowatt-hour |
| Who created a demand for gasoline? | Henry Ford |
| Who invented the light bulb? | Thomas Edison |
| Who is the largest consumer of energy in the world today? | United States |
| Who is Asia's largest consumer of petroleum? | China |
| What is a superconductor? | A material with no resistance |
| How is a series circuit different from a parallel circuit? | A parallel circuit has more than 1 pathway for electrical energy to move through |
| What is a circuit with more than 1 resistor on a single wire called? | Series circuit |
| Why is an insulator used in a circuit? | Keeps the electric charge inside the pathway |
| What is an inexpensive and available conductor? | salt water |
| When an atom loses electrons, its charge becomes what? | positive |
| What is a parallel circuit? | seperate circuits within a larger circuit |
| What is a series circuit? | Electricity flows through all the parts of the circuit in a loop |
| What is a load? | any device placed in a circuit to do work, example light bulb |
| What is a circuit? | electrons flow through wire, the wire must make a complete path or circle, the path is the circuit |
| What is the pressure that pushes electrons in a circuit? | Voltage |
| What is resistance measured in? | ohms |
| An incandescent bulb converts 10% of the energy it uses into light and 90% into which form of energy? | Thermal |
| Most power plants use what to produce electricity? | Turbine generators |
| Which measure of electricity does a transformer change? | Voltage |
| If a carbon atom with 6 protons is in balance, how many electrons are in its energy levels? | 6 |
| What energy sources are a result of solar energy? | Wind, Hydropower, and Biomass |
| What source of electricity do we mainly rely on in the U.S.? | coal |
| What are the fossil fuels? | Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Coal |
| Which form(s) of energy produce electrical energy? | Mechanical, Chemical, and Radiant |
| Turning on a tv, changes electricity into which forms of energy? | Sound, light, and heat |
| What is current measured in? | amps |
