Across
- 2. This is a motor which runs by altering the current.
- 5. A device used for measuring small electric currents.
- 8. An invention most likely first made by the Chinese. It is an instrument containing a magnetized pointer that shows direction.
- 9. Having a high susceptibility to magnetization.
- 12. The formation of new areas of oceanic crust, which occurs through the upwelling of magma at midocean ridges.
- 18. The number of field lines passing through a surface perpendicular to the lines.
- 19. Groups of atoms near each other that are magnetized.
- 21. The rotating colors of an electric motor.
- 22. to have a desire to be pulled together
- 23. This device converts direct current electrical energy into mechanical energy.
- 24. Segment includes both endpoints.
- 26. Energy that allows for action or movement.
Down
- 1. He worked mainly with the principles underlying electromagnetic induction.
- 3. This is used to find the direction of a current flow.
- 4. Changes in direction or orientation of the magnetic field of the Earth that have occurred from time to time.
- 6. A force that is when objects move away from each other.
- 7. A grey magnetic material.
- 10. He voyaged extensively before the age of exploration began.
- 11. This is a special type of wife that has the ability to have electricity flow through it.
- 13. This is soft metal core made into a magnet by the passage of electric current through a coil surrounding it.
- 14. A device that has the ability to produce energy.
- 15. Seafloor rocks that are magnetically stripped.
- 16. cylindrical coil of wire that works as a magnet when carrying electric current.
- 17. A magnet has two of these and they can eat her repel or retract each other.
- 20. Temporary magnets are magnetized by ________ .
- 25. He discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields.
