Electricity

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