Name that Wave
This is the highest part of a transverse wave, not toothpaste.
What is a crest?
When it is increased, the sound gets LOUDER!
What is amplitude?
The bouncing back of sound a wave when it hits a surface through which it cannot pass.
What is an echo?
Sound is considered to be a form of this type of energy.
What is KINETIC?
When the frequency INCREASES, this measurement decreases.
What is wavelength?
Three animals that use echolocation to communicate.
What are bats, whales, dolphins?
A disturbance that transfers energy from place to place.
What is a wave?
The number of complete waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time.
What is frequency?
By using sound waves, doctors can view these images of internal organs and babies in the womb.
What is a sonogram?
A roller coaster that is pausing at the top of a big hill has lots of this type of energy.
What is POTENTIAL ENERGY
or GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY
This type of wave can travel through a vacuum - no medium required!
Electromagnetic wave
The sound from a tuba or foghorn would have this kind of frequency.
What is LOW frequency.
You need this on a ship if you want to detect underwater submarines or sunken ships.
What is SONAR?
This law tells us that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the law of conservation of energy.
Visible light is made of all the colors of the rainbow:
R O Y G B I V
What causes light waves to be different colors?
Different Frequencies of light have different colors.
This machine can take a compressional sound wave and display it as a transverse wave on the screen.
What is an OSCILLOSCOPE?
A high pitched loud scream would have these 2 characteristics.
What is
High frequency and High amplitude
We see lightning before we hear thunder because of this.
What is the speed of sound is slower than the speed of light.
Two other names for "light energy"
What is
ELECTROMAGNETIC
or
RADIANT ENERGY