Trivia
How many holes in a full round of golf
What is 18?
A wave is the distance from the center line to the top point of the crest or the bottom point of the trough
What is amplitude?
The transparent covering over the eye
What is the cornea?
The visible part of the ear that protrudes from our heads, the auditory canal, and the tympanic membrane, or eardrum
What is the outer ear/pinna?
Formed by groupings of taste receptor cells
What are taste buds?
What is the name of the river that runs through the city of London, England?
What is the Thames?
The length of a wave from one peak to the next
What is wavelength?
This is the small opening in the eye through which light passes
What is the pupil?
The three tiny bones known as the ossicles - both names of each
What are the malleus/hammer, incus/anvil, and stapes/stirrup?
What is a knee cap
This Italian city is famous for its leaning tower
What is Pisa?
The number of waves that pass a given point in a given time period
What is frequency?
The colored portion of the eye
What is the iris?
A fluid-filled, snail-shaped structure that contains the sensory receptor cells (hair cells) of the auditory system
What is the cochlea?
A point where we cannot respond to visual information in that portion of the visual field
What is blind spot?
What is the name of Elsa and Anna's kingdom in Frozen?
What is Arundale?
The portion of the larger electromagnetic spectrum that white light is part of
What is visible light spectrum?
A curved, transparent structure that serves to provide additional focus
What is the lens?
The name of the nerve that sends the signals to the brain from of the sound
What is auditory nerve?
This animal has the largest eyeball
What is the giant squid
What movie musical was set at Rydell high School
What is Grease?
Sound waves are this type of wave
What is compressional/longitundinal
A small indentation in the back of the eye
What is the fovea?
The drain tube from the ear, that sometime in the young will be too small and require them to get tubes placed in their ear.
What is the Eustacian tubes?
An auditory receptor cell of the inner ear that you kill with loud music
What is hair cell?
What type of fish is Nemo in the movie Finding Nemo
What is a clownfish?
Measured in terms of decibels (dB), a logarithmic unit of sound intensity
What is loudness?
The light-sensitive lining of the eye
What is the retina?
The canal that leads from the outside ear to the eardrum.
What is the auditory canal?
This is the medical term for having two different colored eyes
What is Heterochromia ?
What planet in our solar system is famous for its big red spot?
What is Jupiter
A human voice producing that same natural frequency will cause the glass to vibrate - it occurs because the singer's voice displaces nearby air particles, which crash into the glass like invisible waves. The term for the phenomena is __
What is resonance?
Specialized types of photoreceptors that work best in bright light conditions and best detects colors
What are cones?
The proper term for ear wax
What is Cerumen ?
Sound will travel fastest in what state of matter
What is solid?
Who was the first person to walk on the moon
Who is Neil Armstrong?
When no energy is moving through the material, the wave is at rest. What is this position known as.
What is node/equilibrium
Specialized photoreceptors that work well in low light conditions
What are rods?
of or involving sound waves with a frequency above the upper limit of human hearing, generally above 20,000Hz
What is ultrasonic?
In a transverse wave, the energy and matter travel ___to each other.
What is perpendicular?