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Grade 8 · Physics

Physics quiz for grade 8: Electric current

This quiz helps revise “Electric current” in Physics for grade 8. It has 25 questions in five categories: Current and Circuits, Measuring Electricity, Wires and Devices, Circuit Connections, Energy and Safety. 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 current

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.

Current and Circuits

  1. 100

    What single word describes a circuit with no gaps, so current can flow?

  2. 200

    What is the source that changes chemical energy into electrical energy?

  3. 300

    What is this part…

    In the game
  4. 400

    Which particles carry charge…

    In the game
  5. 500

    Which way does conventional…

    In the game

Measuring Electricity

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What is this pictured instrument for measuring electric current called?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    The pictured meter measures the difference in electric potential across a lamp. What is it called?

  3. 300

    How must a meter…

    In the game
  4. 400

    How must a meter…

    In the game
  5. 500

    A charge of 12…

    In the game

Wires and Devices

  1. 100

    What do we call a material that hardly lets electric current flow?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    What is this sliding device used to vary resistance called?

  3. 300

    Two copper wires have…

    In the game
  4. 400

    The voltage stays fixed…

    In the game
  5. 500

    The voltage across a…

    In the game

Circuit Connections

  1. 100

    The only path for current to a lamp is broken. What happens to the lamp?

  2. 200

    Two lamps sit one after the other in a single path. How does the current through them compare?

  3. 300

    Two lamps are on…

    In the game
  4. 400

    Two resistors of 2…

    In the game
  5. 500

    Two separate branches each…

    In the game

Energy and Safety

  1. 100

    What household appliance boils water using electricity?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    What is this pictured part that melts and breaks a circuit when the current is too high?

  3. 300

    A device uses 2…

    In the game
  4. 400

    In what unit does…

    In the game
  5. 500

    Current doubles while resistance…

    In the game

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  3. Choose questions on the board, buzz in first and collect points.

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