Electricity
Across
- 1. Expansive areas of land are used to collect _______ energy using windmills
- 6. Electrons are attracted to the protons inside of an ________ due to electrical force
- 7. electrons travel through a closed circuit thanks to the use of conductive materials such as metal. (other name)
- 8. ________ energy comes from flowing water spinning a turbine
- 10. Phenomenon associated with the stationary or moving charge
- 12. sources use limited natural resources to generate electricity
- 14. the attractive or repulsive force that exists between any two objects that are electrically charged
- 17. electrons travel through a closed circuit thanks to the use of conductive materials such as metal.
- 19. Per Coulomb's Law: Force is inversely proportional to the ________ between objects squared
- 20. Only 10% of the power generated in the US comes from burning _______
- 23. A ______ will be repelled by a positive charge
- 25. an abrupt electrical discharge that occurs when a sufficiently high electric field creates an ionized, electrically conductive channel through a normally-insulating medium
- 28. This is the second largest energy producer in the US
- 29. When two like charges come close together
- 31. ________ charges attract
- 32. When two opposite charges come close together
- 35. One of the major downsides to using fossil fuels
- 36. The path for transmitting electrical current
- 37. When there is a release of the charge that is located on a surface or material
- 38. ________ are determined by the number of protons and electrons
Down
- 2. Is neither positive nor negative
- 3. A _____ will be attracted by a positive charge
- 4. comes from a natural source such as wind power, water power, or the heat of the sun
- 5. The smallest portion of our renewable energy comes from _________
- 9. the amount of work done or energy consumed when a device of power kilowatt is used for an hour at rated voltage
- 11. The law that gives us the relationship between electrical forces
- 13. When a negative charge builds in clouds and is released toward the positive charged ground
- 15. ________ charges repel
- 16. the physical property of matter that causes it to experience a force when placed in an electromagnetic field
- 18. Even though it produced large amounts of energy at a time, we only generate about 8% of our energy from ________
- 21. More _______ = a positive charge
- 22. Coal, oil, and natural gas are examples of
- 24. _______ = a negative charge
- 26. The largest percent of our renewable energy comes from ________
- 27. The US produces 36% of out power using ______
- 30. Uses special panels to collect ________ energy from the sun
- 33. Per Coulomb's Law: as the charge increases, the _________ increases
- 34. when electrical charges build up on the surface of a material