Waves
Properties of Waves
Behaviors of Waves
Sight and Hearing
POTLUCK
100
What do waves transmit?
What is energy but not matter.
100
This is what a person transfers to the rope by pulling it up and down at point A?
What is energy?
100
You are creating a wave using a slinky spring. If you start shaking the spring more slowly, the wavelength of the resulting wave will _______.
What is increase?
100

A pencil appears bent in a glass of water.

What is refract?

100
Darker colors absorb more light waves than lighter colors. Which color picnic container would be best at keeping food cool on a sunny day?
What is white?
200
Waves are classified according to _____.
What is how they move.
200
____________is the number of wavelengths that pass a point in a certain amount of time.
What is frequency?
200
The speed of a wave depends on _____.
What is the properties of the medium it travels through
200

The part of the eye that controls the pupil.

What is iris?

200

Funding, time and materials for a prototype.

What are constraints?

300

A _____ wave does not require matter be present in order to travel.

What is an electromagnetic wave...(light wave)

300

The maximum distance that water molecules move from the rest position is the _____.

What is amplitude?

300
Sound travels more quickly _____.
What is in solid materials because the particles of the medium are closer together which reduces the time it takes for one particle to transfer energy to the next particle?
300

Photoreceptors found in the retina.

What are cones and rods?

300
The eardrum moves and is sensitive to which properties of the sound vibrations that strike it?
What is frequency and amplitude?
400

Sound can travel through all media EXCEPT _____.

What is outer space (a vacuum).

400
8. The more _______ a wave carries, the larger its amplitude.
What is energy?
400
What affects the speed of sound waves traveling through the air?
What is the temperature of the air?
400

Sound waves are created from this.

What are vibrations?

400
The pitch of a sound that you hear depends on the sound wave’s _____.
What is frequency?
500
A student produced a wave using a rope. The wave had alternating high points and low points. What are the high and low points called?
What are crests and troughs?
500
The greater the loudness of a sound, the higher the _____ of the wave.
What is amplitude?
500

In a mirror, light can be shared around the room through a lazer.

What is reflection.

500
To improve sound quality, concert halls and theaters use curtains and other soft materials to _____ sound waves.
What is absorb?
500
Through which medium do sound waves travel when they reach the inner ear?
What is a liquid?
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