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Electricity

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    Lightning/electricity
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  • Name three appliances that you can find in a kitchen.
    Oven, fridge, and dishwasher.
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  • Name two appliances/gadgets that you can find in a living room.
    TV, phone charge, PlayStation ….etc
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  • Where does electricity from your electrical gadgets come from? (P. 16)
    The socket in the wall, and that gets electricity through the national grid from power stations.
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  • Where do electrical cables run? (P 16)
    Under pavements and streets.
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  • What do power stations do? (16)
    They produce electricity and feed it into the grid.
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  • What’s the world’s largest power station? What does it do exactly? (16)
    The three Gorges Dam in China. It changes the energy of the rushing river water into electricity.
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  • Describe the electricity that leaves the power stations? (P.17)
    Super charged with energy. Ten times stronger than energy that comes into your home.
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  • What does voltage do? (P.17)
    measures electrical energy.
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  • What would happen if you used high voltage energy at home? (P.17)
    Everything would explode!
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  • What’s a “transformer”? (P.17)
    A device that changes the voltage to keep your machines and gadgets safe.
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  • What happens when electricity passes through you to the ground? (P. 18)
    You get an electric shock
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  • What can electricity change into? And what does that cause? (P. 18)
    Heat. It causes burns.
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  • What happens when you get an electric shock? (P. 18)
    it can stop the heart from beating and makes the muscles freeze. This can mean that the person getting the electric shock can’t let go of whatever is causing it
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  • Why do birds not get an electric shock from sitting on wires? (P. 18
    electricity travels from something high voltage to something low-voltage like the post. The birds are fine because they aren’t touching both at the same time.
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  • How should you treat someone who got a shock? (P. 19
    3 points
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  • How to keep yourself safe from electric shocks? (P. 19))
    Don’t touch sockets or push things into them. Don’t touch bare wires.
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