Science Electricity Answer Key

NAME: Yeohan Simon D.
Valdez
Grade and Section: Grade 8 Topaze
ACTIVITY WORKSHEET NO. 8

Q1W8: FUNCTIONS OF ELECTRICAL SAFETY DEVICES
ACTIVITY NO.1: BE AWARE AND ACQUAINT OF IT!
1. Complete the table below by identifying what electrical safety devices depicted in the pictures and explaining
their functions based on its usefulness at home.
2. Use the summary information on electric safety devices given above as your reference.
SAMPLE PICTURES OF NAME OF FUNCTIONS EXPLAIN WHY THE DEVICE

ELECTRICAL DEVICES ELECTRICAL DEVICES SHOULD BE USED/INSTALLED
AT HOME?
1. Its basic function is to interrupt The circuit breaker panel’s
CIRCUIT BREAKER current flow after a fault is safety system protects your
detected. home and its people from all of
the dangers caused by
improper grounding, short
circuits, voltage fluctuations,
faulty wiring, and damaged
insulation.
2. Fuses and circuit breakers protect If a malfunction in an appliance
electrical circuits and appliances. causes too much current to
FUSE The fuse breaks the circuit if a flow, the fuse will blow and
fault in an appliance causes too the circuit will be broken. If
much current to flow. This something goes wrong, this
protects the wiring and the safeguards the wires and the
appliance if something goes appliance.
wrong.
3. Transferring the immediate One of the most important
discharge of the electrical energy reasons for grounding
EARTH directly to the earth by the help electrical currents is that it
GROUND/EARTHING of the low resistance wire protects your appliances, your
home and everyone in it from
surges in electricity.
4. Tamper resistant receptacles, If you have small children or

commonly known as TRR, can adults who are cognitively
TAMPER RESISTANT help protect from electrical shock, impaired in your home, you
RECEPTACLES injury, or even death. They were should install tamper-proof
originally constructed to create a outlets on all wall receptacles.
permanent solution for children Tamper-resistant outlets
who tamper with outlets. reduce the risk of electrocution
and shock to vulnerable loved
ones.
5. Double insulation protects the The appliance’s family
user of the appliance from an members are protected from
DOUBLE electrical shock by preventing any electrical shock by double
INSULATION possibility of the external casing insulation, which eliminates
becoming live. the risk of the external shell
becoming live (the live wire
can not touch the casing even
if wires inside become loose).
6. The insulators used to support Wires that expose voltages
ELECTRICAL and separate electrical conductors higher than 60 V can cause
INSULATOR and they are rated depending on human shock and electrocution
the nominal voltage they are hazards. We need electrical
going to isolate. insulator at home to prevent
all of these problems.
CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING
ACTIVITY 2.Understanding sequence

I. FILL IN THE BLANK
Directions: Write the appropriate answer (word or phrase) in each of the sentences about electrical safety devices
and practices.
1. SHORT CIRCUITS occurs when wires with defective rubber insulation touch each other so the current does not
pass to the supposed path it should take.
2. OVERLOADING OF THE CIRCUIT occurs when the current passing is more than what the wires can carry, causing
the wire to heat up.
3. CIRCUIT BREAKER is an automatically operated electrical switch that functions to interrupt current flow after a
fault is detected.
4. The essential component of FUSE is a metal wire or strip that melts when too much current flows through it,
thereby stopping or interrupting the current. It protects appliances from electric power surges and overheating.
5. DOUBLE INSULATION ensures that if the live wire frays or connects to the outer case of the appliance it will not
conduct, thus protecting the user of the appliance from an electrical shock by preventing any possibility of the
external casing becoming live.
6. The primary purpose of EARTH GROUND/EARTHING is to avoid or minimize the danger of electrocution, fire due
to earth leakage of current through undesired path and to ensure that the potential of a current carrying
conductor does not rise with respect to the earth than its designed insulation.
7. In using electrical outlet, avoid plugging it with too many appliances and unplug appliances when not in use.

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NAME: Yeohan Simon D.

ACTIVITY WORKSHEET NO. 8

SAMPLE PICTURES OF NAME OF FUNCTIONS EXPLAIN WHY THE DEVICE

4. Tamper resistant receptacles, If you have small children or

CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING

ACTIVITY 2.Understanding sequence

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