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  • What happens when electricity passes through you to the ground? (P. 18)
    You get an electric shock
  • 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.
  • 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
  • How should you treat someone who got a shock? (P. 19
    3 points
  • Name two appliances/gadgets that you can find in a living room.
    TV, phone charge, PlayStation ….etc
  • How to keep yourself safe from electric shocks? (P. 19))
    Don’t touch sockets or push things into them. Don’t touch bare wires.
  • Name three appliances that you can find in a kitchen.
    Oven, fridge, and dishwasher.
  • What can electricity change into? And what does that cause? (P. 18)
    Heat. It causes burns.
  • What do power stations do? (16)
    They produce electricity and feed it into the grid.
  • What do batteries contain? (P. 20)
    Poisonous metals.
  • Describe the electricity that leaves the power stations? (P.17)
    Super charged with energy. Ten times stronger than energy that comes into your home.
  • 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.
  • What would happen if you used high voltage energy at home? (P.17)
    Everything would explode!
  • Can eels make electricity? Is it a lot? (P. 19)
    Yes they can! Enough to harm a human.
  • Where do electrical cables run? (P 16)
    Under pavements and streets.
  • How did Alessandro Volta get the idea to create a battery? (P. 21)
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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.
  • Talk about/describe batteries . (P. 20)
    They are small and the make a small amount of electricity.
  • What do a watch and a remote control have in common?(p. 20)
    Both use batteries. The batteries make electricity.
  • How do batteries work? (P. 21)
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  • Who made the first battery? And when? (P. 21)
    Alessandro Volta, 1800
  • What was Volta’s battery called? What was it made of? (P. 21)
    Voltaic pile, made of metal, cardboard and saltwater.
  • What’s a “transformer”? (P.17)
    A device that changes the voltage to keep your machines and gadgets safe.
  • What does voltage do? (P.17)
    measures electrical energy.
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