The cards Question What is a series circuit? Tap to flip Answer An electric circuit with one complete loop from one end of a battery to the other end. Question What is a complete circuit? Tap to flip Answer One with no gaps, so electricity is able to flow round it. Question Why are there no gaps in the wires of a circuit diagram? Tap to flip Answer A gap would indicate a break in the circuit. Question Does a circuit diagram show the positions of components or their sequence? Tap to flip Answer Their sequence, not their position. Question What is a filament? Tap to flip Answer A thin metal wire inside some light bulbs that glows and emits light when heated. Question What is wrong inside a faulty filament bulb? Tap to flip Answer The filament is broken, so current cannot flow through it. Question What is a faulty component? Tap to flip Answer One that is damaged or is not conducting electricity properly. Question What is a test circuit used for? Tap to flip Answer Checking whether a component (or another circuit) allows electricity to flow through it. Question How can a wire or component be tested? Tap to flip Answer By putting it into a simple circuit with a battery and a bulb. Question How can a circuit with one faulty component be made to work? Tap to flip Answer Use a wire to bypass the faulty component. Question How do you check a faulty circuit systematically? Tap to flip Answer Start at one point and move from component to component in order, clockwise or anticlockwise. Question What is an electrical cell? Tap to flip Answer A component that uses a chemical reaction to make electric charge flow in a circuit. Question What is electric current? Tap to flip Answer The flow of electric charge in a circuit. Question Which charges flow in conductors to cause an electric current? Tap to flip Answer Electrons. Question Why does one end of a battery have a positive charge and the other a negative charge? Tap to flip Answer Because of chemical reactions inside the battery. Question Are there electric charges in a circuit's wires when it is switched off? Tap to flip Answer Yes. All the atoms of the wires and components contain charges, even when the circuit is off. Question When a circuit is switched on, where do electrons start moving? Tap to flip Answer Everywhere in the circuit at the same time. Question How fast do individual electrons move round a circuit? Tap to flip Answer Slowly: just a few millimetres each second. Question What does an ammeter measure? Tap to flip Answer The current flowing in a circuit. Question What unit is electric current measured in? Tap to flip Answer Amps (A), short for amperes. Question Does an ammeter change the current in the circuit it measures? Tap to flip Answer No. It measures the current through it without affecting the current in the circuit. Question What is the rule for current in a series circuit? Tap to flip Answer The current is the same everywhere. Question When a component is added to a series circuit, where does the current change? Tap to flip Answer Everywhere, on both sides of the component. Question Is electric current used up as it flows round a circuit? Tap to flip Answer No. The current flowing through the circuit is conserved. Question What does a voltmeter measure? Tap to flip Answer The voltage supplied by a cell or battery, or across a component. Question What is voltage a measure of? Tap to flip Answer The 'push' from a cell or battery that moves charge round a circuit. Question What is the more formal term for voltage? Tap to flip Answer Potential difference (p.d.). Question What unit is voltage measured in? Tap to flip Answer Volts (V). Question How is a voltmeter connected to a cell, battery or component? Tap to flip Answer Across its terminals. Question What is a battery? Tap to flip Answer Two or more cells connected in series. Question In a series circuit, what do the voltages across each component add up to? Tap to flip Answer The voltage of the cell or battery. Question What is the voltage of a battery made of cells added in series? Tap to flip Answer The voltages of the cells added together. Question What is the difference between voltage and current? Tap to flip Answer Voltage is an electric 'push'; current is the flow of electric charge. Question What causes static electricity? Tap to flip Answer A build-up of charge on insulators. Question How can some objects be given a static charge? Tap to flip Answer By rubbing them with certain materials. Question What is the electrostatic force? Tap to flip Answer A force that acts between charges. Question Does the electrostatic force need contact to act? Tap to flip Answer No. It acts at a distance. Question What happens between objects with opposite electric charges? Tap to flip Answer They attract each other. Question What happens between objects with the same electric charge? Tap to flip Answer They repel each other. Question What do atoms contain equal numbers of? Tap to flip Answer Positively charged protons and negatively charged electrons. Question When objects are charged by rubbing, which charges move? Tap to flip Answer Only electrons. Question How does an object become positively charged by rubbing? Tap to flip Answer Electrons are removed from it. Question In which part of an atom are electrons found? Tap to flip Answer The outer part. Question Why are metals difficult to charge with static electricity? Tap to flip Answer Charge flows through them, which stops it building up. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage Key stage 3 (Years 7–9) Course KS3 Science Unit Series circuits England's National Curriculum sets what is taught; the units and their order are Oak National Academy's. 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