What is Science?
Characteristics of Waves
Sound
Electromagnetic Spectrum
Light
100
An inference
What is a logical interpretation based on prior knowledge?
100
When the medium vibrates
Where do waves get their energy?
100
Vibrating
How does a sound travels through a medium?
100
Waves with electric and magnetic fields
What is an eloctromagnetic wave?
100
The acronym for the rainbow
What is ROYGBIV?
200
Observing
What is the scientific skill in which the senses are used to gather information?
200
An amplitude, a crest, a trough, and a wavelength
What is a wave?
200
How close particles are in a medium, how far the medium can stretch, and how warm the medium affects the speed of sound
How does elasticity, density, and temperature affect the speed of sound through a medium?
200
All of these waves have electric and magnetic fields, but different frequencies
How are electromagnetic waves alike and different?
200
When an object is black it is _______.
What is opaque
300
A hypothesis
What is a statement that is tested through an experiment?
300
The closer the wavelengths the higher the frequency, the farther apart the wavelengths the slower the speed
How are speed, wavelength, and frequency related?
300
Sound cannot travel through space because there are no particles in space
Why can't sound travel through space?
300
Radio, Micro, Infrared, Visible Light, Ultraviolet, X-ray, Gamma
What is the Electromagnetic Spectrum?
300
When an object absorbs all colors
What is white?
400
A controlled variable
What is an experiment in which you change only change one factor?
400
When a wave moves at an angle
What causes refraction?
400
The height of the amplitude affects how loud a sound is
What makes sounds louder than other sounds?
400
We use these to see bones
What are X-rays?
400
When an object is see-through it is ________.
What is transparent?
500
A scientific theory
What is a well tested idea that explains and connects a wide range of observations?
500
When two waves combine to make a larger wave its a constructive interference, and when two waves combine to make a smaller wave it is a destructive interference
What is the difference between constructive and destructive interference?
500
Apparent change in frequency as a wave source moves in relation to the listener
What is the Doppler effect?
500
The last type of wave/ray on the Electromagnetic Spectrum
What are Gamma Rays
500
Scatters light as it passes through
What is translucent?
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