FOR GRADE 9 (NINE) SCIENCE PHYSICS

ELECRICITY

1. What particles are contained within an atom? What are their charges and positions?
2. What is static electricity?
3. What is a conductor? And what is an insulator?
4. List 10 insulators and conductors of electricity. Are they all also insulators and conductors of
heat?
5. How can you build-up charge on objects?
6. What is an electroscope?
7. What is lightning?
8. What is a lightning rod?
9. How can you avoid lightning?
10. What is grounding? Explain, giving an example from everyday usage.

11. What is an electric current?

12. What is a cell?
13. What is a battery?
14. Draw a simple circuit and label its parts.
15. What is a wet cell (voltaic cell)? Explain its!
16. What is a dry cell?
17. Explain the difference between dry and wet cell?
18. What is the unit of voltage? What is the instrument to measure it? How way to connected the
measure of voltage in the circuit element?
19. Show in a circuit diagram how a voltmeter and ammeter are coneected.
20. How can cells be connected together;
a. To get a higher voltage
b. To have a longer life
21. Explain Ohm’s law
22. What is resistance?
23. What is difference between series and parallel circuits?

24. What is the resistance in a circuit??

FOR GRADE 9 (NINE) SCIENCE PHYSICS

25. Two 10 ohm resistors are connected in parallel to a 1.5 V cell.

a. Draw a circuit showing how they are connected
b. Find the current on each resistor