What are the high points of a transverse wave called?
Crests
100
What type of electromagnetic wave can damage your skin?
Ultraviolet Waves
100
What is frequency?
The measure of how many wavelengths pass by a point each second.
100
What types of waves do sound waves travel in?
Compression waves
100
What is my favorite branch of science?
(chemistry, ecology, biology, earth science) Choose one!
BIOLOGY!!
200
What are the low points of a transverse wave called?
Troughs
200
What type of electromagnetic waves have the wavelength the size of a football field?
Radio/TV waves
200
What is refraction?
When a wave changes speed because it enters a different medium.
200
What is intensity?
How loud the sound is.
200
Which month is Miss Kennedy's birthday in?
January
300
What is it called in a compression wave when the coils are squeezed close together?
Compression
300
Are X-rays high or low energy?
High Energy
300
When a wave bounces off of an object, this is known as?
Reflection
300
What is reverberation?
Repeated Echoes
300
How many pets do I have?
Zero, I don't really like pets. :/
400
What is the term used to describe the part of a compression wave where the coils are spread apart?
Rarefaction
400
What type of electromagnetic wave has the highest frequency and highest energy?
Gamma Rays
400
What is diffraction?
The bending of waves around an object.
400
What is the unit for frequency?
hertz
400
What college does my brother attend?
EIU!! Go Blue!
500
How do you find the amplitude of a transverse wave?
You measure from midpoint to crest OR midpoint to trough.
500
Humans can see visible light. Of all the colors we see, which color has the shortest wavelength?
Violet or Purple
500
What is the law of reflection?
The law of reflection states that the size of the angle of incidence makes with the normal will always equal the angle of reflection from the normal. I=R