Name: _________________________________________________________________________ Per: __________ Number: __________
1. What causes your hair to stand straight out from
1. ______________________________________________
your head?
2. What are different kinds of atoms called?
2. ______________________________________________
3. When atoms join together, they make
3. ______________________________________________
4. In the middle of each atom is a
4. ______________________________________________
5. What are the names of the two particles that are in
5. ______________________________________________
a nucleus?
6. Why are there 115 different atoms?
6. ______________________________________________
7. What is the electrical charge of:
a. Protons
7. ______________________________________________
b. Electrons
7. ______________________________________________
c. Neutrons
7. ______________________________________________
8. The strength of the charge in one proton is ______
8. ______________________________________________
compared to one electron.
9. Which electrons can move from one atom to
9. ______________________________________________
another atom?
10. If an atom loses electrons, what kind of charge
10. ______________________________________________
does it have?
11. When an atom gains an electron, what kind of
11. ______________________________________________
charge does it have?
a. What is another name for a charged atom?
11. ______________________________________________
12. Materials that hold onto their electrons really well
12. ______________________________________________
are called?
13. Materials that have some loosely held electrons are
13. ______________________________________________
called?
14. The imbalance of positive and negative charges is
14. ______________________________________________
called?
15. When objects have opposite charges they will…
15. ______________________________________________
16. When objects have the same charge they will…
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17. What happens when you rub a balloon on your
17. ______________________________________________
hair?
a. What kind of charge does it have?
18. What charge does a wall have to have in order for a
negative charged balloon to stick? (list all)
17. ______________________________________________
18. ______________________________________________
What is Static Electricity: Guided
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