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Bill Nye Video: Static Electricity
1. What happens when electricity does not flow, but instead builds up?
2. Electricity is the flow of ________________.
3. What does the word “static” mean?
4. What happens when static electricity is released?
5. How does static electricity happen?
6. What type of charges will attract each other?
7. What type of charges will repel each other?
8. How does spraying water on clothes release the static electricity that makes them stick together?
9. What are electrons and what do they have to do with electricity?
10. What does it mean to “discharge” electrons?
11. What is meant by the term “grounded” when speaking of electricity?
12. How many lightning bolts hit the Earth every second of the day?
13. What does amber have to do with electricity?
14. What causes the static that appears on our TV screen when an electric motor is running?
15. Where do you find a lightning rod and what are they used for?
16. Why did the tin foil move apart in the “peanut jar” electroscope?
17. What does lightning have to do with static electricity; how does it work?
18. What causes thunder?
19. Can static electricity move?