What this quiz covers

Grade 8 Natural Sciences: Static Electricity & Electric Circuits Quiz 1 draws its questions at random from 47 questions across these topics:

• Static electricity
• Charges and friction
• Attraction and repulsion
• Discharge and lightning
• Lightning safety
• Circuits and symbols
• Open and closed circuits
• Conductors and insulators

Example questions

A sample of the questions you will practise in this quiz. Work them out yourself - the full solution appears after you answer each one.

1. What is static electricity?
2. Why do we call it static electricity?
3. On which kind of material does static charge build up?
4. What type of charge does a proton carry?
5. What type of charge does an electron carry?