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Electric Circuits

Quiz by Karen Bostic

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9 questions
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  • Q1
    1. Which of the following is not a basic part of an electric circuit?
    A. conducting wires
    D. a device that runs on electrical energy
    C. A source of electrical energy
    B. transformer
    30s
  • Q2
    2. Which end of a battery has the higher electric potential energy?
    C. neither of them have energy
    B. the negative end
    D. both have the same amount of energy
    A. the positive end
    30s
  • Q3
    3. Which of the following are ways to decrease the resistance of a wire?
    B. make the wire shorter and wider
    D. make the wire longer and wider
    C. make the wire longer and thinner
    A. make the wire shorter and thinner
    30s
  • Q4
    4. If you increase the number of bulbs in a series circuit, how does that affect the resistance within the circuit?
    C. it stays the same
    A. it decreases
    B. it increases
    30s
  • Q5
    5. Ronnie was building a circuit connecting a battery to a light bulb to a battery. The current flows due to a difference in potential energy called ________________. The light bulb is a ______________, which slows the flow of current in the circuit.
    C. voltage, conductor
    A. transformer, conductor
    B. transformer, resistor
    D. voltage, resistor
    30s
  • Q6
    7. Adrienne measured the voltage in her circuit and found it to be 120 volts. She knew that the resistor she had placed in her circuit had a resistance of 1,500 ohms.What was the current in her circuit in amps?
    B. 12.5 amps
    C. 180,000 amps
    D. 0.08 amps
    A. 120 amps
    30s
  • Q7
    8. If Adrienne increase the voltage in the circuit and kept the resistance the same, what would happen to the amount of current?
    A. increase
    C. stay the same
    B. decrease
    D. double
    30s
  • Q8
    9. If Adrienne added a resistor (another light bulb) what would happen to the voltage?
    A. increase
    B. decrease
    C. stay the same
    D. double
    30s
  • Q9
    10. Sydney was organizing a box of resistors by resistance range. She knows that there are several factors that go into determining the resistance. Which of the following does not affect resistance
    C. mass
    B. length
    D. material
    A. diameter
    30s

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