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Static Electricity: Matching

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Discovery Education has provided a series of quick quizzes on several topics. Here is one on static electricity. Young scientists match eight terms to their definitions. You can view the solution right from the page, so if you want to use this as a quiz, print it out rather than have pupils use a computer. 

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static electricity, electricity, electroscopes, induction, insulators

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induction, static electricity, electroscope, insulator, science
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4th - 8th
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Science
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