Q: What is it called when you touch a charged object to the earth?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

The earth is also a conductor. Touching a charged object to the earth is called grounding . When you touch a conductor to the earth, you allow the earth to share the charge. Since the earth is billions of times bigger than the object, the earth takes nearly all of the charge. The charged object that was grounded now has zero charge.

 Choices:

- cooling

- charging

- dispersion

- grounding


A:
grounding