Teaching Children about Static and Current Electricity

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Across
  1. 5. The scientist that coined the phrase ‘animal electricity (7)
  2. 6. Type of ball made from the inside of cornstalks (4)
  3. 7. The correct term for a circuit when a switch is off (4)
  4. 8. Benjamin Franklin’s invention (9, 30)
  5. 9. The unit of current flow that sounds French (6)
  6. 10. This word comes from the Greek word amber (8)
  7. 11. The most common source of electricity today (13)
  8. 16. Not just a movie about a robot, it occurs when 2 wires touch outside of an appliance (12)
  9. 17. It detects tiny electrical currents (12)
  10. 18. Not just a heavy-metal band (4)
  11. 19. He who discovered current electricity (5)
  12. 20. The ‘automatic switch’ that cuts off the current when it is too great (4)
Down
  1. 1. Not only for buses, these are good carriers of electricity (10)
  2. 2. This works better than a series arrangement for the bulbs in our house (8)
  3. 3. The name of the jar that stored static electricity in the 1700s. (6)
  4. 4. Another name for a dimmer switch (7)
  5. 6. The other term for pressure as a source of electricity (13)
  6. 12. Hard to believe, but early scientists believed that current electricity was matter in this form (6)
  7. 13. The device that detects static charge (12)
  8. 14. The opposite of conductors (10)
  9. 15. Like opposites, unlike charges always do this (7)