Basics
Cup Phones!
Definitions
Signal Types
Anything goes!
100

The first part of any communication system.

What is the Source?

100

The Source for the Cup Phone System.

What is the Person Speaking?

100

Converting from one signal type into another.

What is Encoding?

100

Cup Phones Convert Sound Waves into this signal Type.

What are Vibrations?

100

Students “Enter” Through Red Double Doors.

What is the Mnemonic reminder for the Encoder?

200

The last part of any Communication System.

What is the Desination?

200

This is the signal type that moves through the string in a Cup Phone System.

What are Vibrations?

200

This component is responsible for accepting information.

What is the Receiver?

200

People communicate using this Signal Type.

What are Sound Waves?

200

All Landlines use this Signal Type.

What is Electrical?

300

This part of a communication system always appears before the Destination.

What is the Decoder?
300

The Cup is this part of the Communication System.

What is the Encoder?

300

Converting from one signal type back into the original signal type.

What is Decoding?

300

Whenever we see a wire, we think of this signal type.

What is an Electrical Signal?

300

Your eyes will be the Receiver when using this non-verbal Communication System.

What is Sign Language?

400

This is the second part of any communication system.

What is the Encoder?

400

If we cut the string to a Cup Phone, which part of the Communication System have we broken?

What is the Transmitter?

400

Moving information from one place to another.

What is Transmitting?

400

Wireless Signal Type.

What are Radio Waves?

400

Cell Phone Towers are a combination of these 3 Communication Systems components.

What are Receiver, Encoder and Transmitter?

500

The three main signal types in modern Communication Systems.

What are Radio Waves, Electrical Signals, and Light Signals?

500

The Person Speaking, the Cup, the Wire are these parts of a Communication System.

What are the Source, Encoder, and Transmitter?

500

Converting one Signal into the SAME signal.

What is Relaying?

500

The Internet, especially fiOs, uses this Signal Type.

What are Light Waves?

500

A Satellite Relays Radio Waves after it receives this Signal Type.

What are Radio Waves?

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