Static Electricity Worksheet
Explore the principles of static electricity, including charge, attraction, repulsion, and common examples, suitable for Grade 6 science students.
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will test your knowledge of static electricity.
1. What is static electricity?
Electricity that flows through wires
An imbalance of electric charges on a surface
The electricity that powers your home
Electricity produced by batteries
2. What happens when two objects with the same charge come near each other?
They attract each other
They repel each other
Nothing happens
They explode
3. When you rub a balloon on your hair, are transferred from your hair to the balloon.
4. Objects with opposite charges will each other.
5. A sudden discharge of static electricity is commonly seen as a .
6. Static electricity can make your hair stand on end.
True
False
7. Lightning is an example of static electricity.
True
False
8. Describe one everyday example of static electricity you have experienced.
9. Explain why rubbing a balloon on your hair makes it stick to a wall.
Observe the image below, which shows an example of static electricity in action.
10. In the image above, what evidence suggests static electricity might be present?