Summary What is electricity

What is Electricity?

1. What is electricity?
Electricity is a form of energy that flows from one place to
another or can build up in one place.

2. How is electricity made?
Coal and other fuels are used to create heat energy which turns the water into steam
and the steam powers a turbine that gives energy to a generator and the generator
turns kinetic energy into electrical energy which powers the object that needs
electricity.



3. Name two types of electricity.
a)Static Electricity
b)Current Electricity



4. What are atoms?
Atoms are very small particles in the air that are the smallest unit that makes up
everything, even people. Atoms can only be seen with a microscope and have different
parts to it, the nucleus, the neutrons, the protons and electrons



5. List three basic parts of an atom.
a)Nucleus
b)Protons
c)Electrons
d)Neutrons

6. What is an electron?
An electron is one of the parts of an atom. An electron orbits the nucleus and has a
negative charge that is equal to the positive charge of the nucleus so the atom is
neutral. Electrons can't run away because the attraction and the positive charge of the
nucleus and protons keeps it in orbit around it.