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Pushes electricity around a circuit

What do you call a material that electricity can’t flow through?

What do you call a material that electricity travels through?

Representation of circuits in symbols.

What happens if the cells in a circuit are too powerful for the device in the circuit?

In this circuit the current has a choice of routes. The components are connected side by side.

Turns a machine off by breaking the circuit

You need this for electricity to flow.

How could you make a motor turn faster?

The power of a battery or cell is measured in:

What happens if you put one extra cell in a circuit with a lamp?

What happens if you put another lamp in a circuit?

A circuit in the current only has one path to take.

VOLTS

THE LAMPS ARE BOTH DIM.

PARALLEL CIRCUIT

THE DEVICE BURNS OUT

AN INSULATOR

SERIES CIRCUIT

ADD ANOTHER CELL

A CONDUCTOR

THE LAMP GETS BRIGHTER

DIAGRAM

A COMPLETE CIRCUIT

A CELL

A SWITCH