Grade 4 Science: Electricity 2
Multiple-Choice Exercise
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Choose the correct answer for each question.
What changes the Sun's energy into electrical energy?
- voltage
- electric cells
- generators
- solar cells
What produces the electricity that you use in your home and school?
- generators
- electromagnets
- solar cells
- electric cells
How does a battery create current?
- Chemical energy changes into energy of motion.
- Energy of motion changes into electrical energy.
- Electrical energy changes into chemical energy.
- Chemical energy changes into electrical energy.
What is voltage like?
- fire in a fireplace
- water in a garden hose
- a compass needle
- lemon juice in a glass
What device could you use to pick up aluminum cans?
- a generator
- an electromagnet
- a compass
- a current detector
Electricity sets up a magnetic field around _____.
- electromagnets
- generators
- solar cells
- electric cells
The force that pushes electricity along wires is _____.
- voltage
- electric cells
- generators
- solar cells
A battery is made up of two or more what?
- generators
- voltage
- solar cells
- electric cells