Waves
Light
Electromagnetic Waves
Minerals
Weathering & Soil
100
The maximum distance that the particles of a medium move from the rest position.
What is amplitude?
100
Frosted glass and wax paper are this kind of material.
What is translucent?
100
A optic tool that police officers use for speed control.
What is radio waves or radar gun?
100
Rock that forms from the cooling of magma below the surface or lava at the surface.
What is igneous rock?
100
The type of weathering that occurs due to release of pressure.
What is mechanical weathering?
200
The distance between two corresponding parts of a wave.
What is wavelength?
200
Clear glass, water, and air are this kind of material.
What is transparent?
200
Waves that have some electrical properties and some magnetic properties.
What are electromagnetic waves?
200
Rock that forms from laying down layers of sediment.
What is sedimentary rock?
200
The movement of rock particles by ice, wind, water, or gravity.
What is erosion?
300
When light passes from air into water.
What is slows down?
300
A white carpet will appear red when viewed this.
What is a red light or filter?
300
Electromagnetic waves that have wavelengths slightly shorter than those of visible light.
What are ultraviolet rays?
300
Something in the earth formed by a natural process.
What is are minerals?
300
This causes the mineral composition of rocks to change.
What is chemical weathering ?
400
Waves that require a medium through which to travel.
What is a mechanical wave?
400
What is produced when mixing two primary colors together.
What is a secondary color of light?
400
The range of electromagnetic waves placed in a certain order.
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
400
The repeating pattern of a mineral’s particles.
What is a crystal?
400
This causes mechanical weathering of rock by means of freezing and thawing of water.
What is the Ice wedging?
500
The unit of measure for the frequency of a wave.
What are hertz?
500
Colored substances that are used to color other materials.
What are pigments?
500
An wave made of electric and magnetic fields at right angles to one another.
What is an electromagnetic wave?
500
The possible stages in the rock cycle are volcanic activity, erosion, smelting, and melting.
What are two stages of the rock cycle?
500
The practice of plowing fields along the curves of a slope.
What is contour plowing?
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