sound
Speed of sound
What is about 340 m/s in Omaha, NE on a 70 degree Fahrenheit day?
outer ear
What is the pinna? (or auricle)
Speed
What is 300,000,000 m/s?
3 behaviors
What is reflect, absorb, and transmit?
Distance from starting point to the crest
What is amplitude?
Type of wave
Sound is represented as a longitudinal wave.
Snail or spiral shaped
What is the cochlea?
type of wave
What is a transverse wave?
Light doesn't go through
What is opaque?
Distance from crest to crest
What is wavelength?
dB represents
What is decibel - the loudness of sound?
Bones in order
What is the malleus, incus and stapes?
dimness or brightness of light
What is determined by amplitude?
Medium
What is the substance (solid, liquid or gas) that light or sound can go through?
Needs a medium to travel through
What is sound?
Number on a tuning fork
What is the frequency?
Nerve associated with hearing
What is the cochlear or auditory nerve?
Three ways to represent light
What is a ray, a transverse wave and as photons?
Law of Reflection
What is that whatever angle light enters a mirror, it will leave at that same angle?
What is frequency
What is the number of waves passing a point in one second?
Wavelength of the tuning forks (approximately)
What is about one meter long?
Nerve associated with balance
What is the vestibular nerve?
decrease in angle with mirrors and increase of something in the lab
What is increase in the number of images produced by the mirror?
tiny hairs in cochlea
What is a part of the cochlea that picks up certain frequencies?
All the parts of the electromagnetic spectrum in order from least energy to most energy
What is radio, microwave, infrared, visible,ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma?