1st Quarter LEARNING MATERIAL IN GRADE 8 Science

WORKSHEET 13: Electric Charge

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Teacher______________________________ School___________________________________Date_____________
Objective: Describe electric charge and to infer the relationship between current and charge.
BIG IDEAS
 Electric charge, basic property of matter carried by some elementary particles that governs how the particles are
affected by an electric or magnetic field. Electric charge, which can be positive or negative, occurs in discrete
natural units and is neither created nor destroyed.
I. DIRECTIONS: Count the positive and negative charges in each picture. Write positive charge, negative charge, or no
charge on each line.

Prepared by: John Robin F. Amoguis, Teacher I, Felipe G. Calderon Integrated School (High School)
References: https://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/circuits/Lesson-3/Ohm-s-Law
https://www.britannica.com/science/electric-charge
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II. DIRECTIONS: Fill in the blanks to complete the statement. Choose your answer from the box.

LAW OF ELECTRIC CHARGES

The law of electric charges says that objects with the same charge ____________________ That means they push away
from each other. Opposite charges ____________________, or pull together. The ping-pong balls in the figure below
show the law of electric charges.

The Law of Electric Charges

Objects that have the ____________________ charge repel each other. Each object exerts a force on the other object.
These
forces push the /objects apart.

Objects that have ____________________ charges are attracted to each other. Each object exerts a force on the other
object. These forces ____________________ the objects together.

Prepared by: John Robin F. Amoguis, Teacher I, Felipe G. Calderon Integrated School (High School)
References: https://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/circuits/Lesson-3/Ohm-s-Law
https://www.britannica.com/science/electric-charge
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ANSWER KEY
I.

II.
LAW OF ELECTRIC CHARGES
The law of electric charges says that objects with the same charge repel. That means they push away from each other.
Opposite charges attract, or pull together. The ping-pong balls in the figure below show the law of electric charges.

The Law of Electric Charges

Objects that have the same charge repel each other. Each object exerts a force on the other object. These
forces push the /objects apart.

Objects that have opposite charges are attracted to each other. Each object exerts a force on the other object. These
forces pull the objects together.

Prepared by: John Robin F. Amoguis, Teacher I, Felipe G. Calderon Integrated School (High School)
References: https://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/circuits/Lesson-3/Ohm-s-Law
https://www.britannica.com/science/electric-charge