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Grade 8 · Physics

Physics quiz for grade 8: Electric circuits

This quiz helps revise “Electric circuits” in Physics for grade 8. It has 25 questions in five categories: How current flows, Measuring, Voltage & resistance, One route, Several routes. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • For ages 13–14
  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Electric circuits

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

How current flows

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What kind of circuit must connect a source's terminals so charge can keep moving continuously?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    Which particle is the main mobile charge carrier in a metal wire?

  3. 300

    What component connects or…

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  4. 400

    In which direction is…

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  5. 500

    Ten coulombs of charge…

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Measuring

  1. 100

    What is the instrument connected in series to measure current?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    What is the pictured instrument connected in parallel with a component to measure voltage?

  3. 300

    A meter reads 0.25…

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  4. 400

    Eighteen coulombs of charge…

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  5. 500

    A current of 0.6…

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Voltage & resistance

  1. 100

    Which law relates voltage, current and the resistance of a conductor?

  2. 200

    A component has 16 volts across it and carries 4 amperes. What is its resistance?

  3. 300

    A component has 18…

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  4. 400

    A component has 6…

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  5. 500

    At constant voltage, the…

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One route

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What is the pictured arrangement called when components are one after another with no branches?

  2. 200

    Resistors of 2 and 7 ohms are connected in series. What is the total resistance?

  3. 300

    How do the currents…

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  4. 400

    Two components in series…

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  5. 500

    Resistors of 7 and…

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Several routes

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What is the pictured arrangement called when components are joined across the same two nodes?

  2. 200

    How do the voltages compare across parallel branches?

  3. 300

    Seven amperes enter a…

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  4. 400

    Two 10-ohm resistors are…

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  5. 500

    Three parallel branches have…

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