You Test a Diode with an Ohmmeter

question 40

Multiple Choice

You test a diode with an ohmmeter. The two readings indicate a very low value of resistance. The diode is probably ________.

• A)conducting heavily
• B)open
• C)normal
• D)shorted

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Definitions:

Tobacco Farming

The cultivation of tobacco plants for the production of cigarettes, cigars, and other tobacco products, historically a significant agricultural activity in the southern United States.

Seventeenth-Century Virginia

Refers to the English colony in North America during the 1600s, a period of early settlement, tobacco cultivation, and African enslavement.

Elite Plantation-Owning Class

Refers to the class of individuals or families who owned large areas of land used for agricultural production, specifically plantations, which often relied on enslaved labor in pre-Civil War America and other colonial contexts.

Puritans

English religious group that sought to purify the Church of England; founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony under John Winthrop in 1630.