Greek Geography
Gods of Ancient Greece
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Wave Vocab
Potpourri (pronounced Po Puh Ree)
100
These landforms isolated areas in Greece from each other, which gave rise to city-states.
What are mountains?
100
God of the underworld.
Who is Hades?
100
G to F
What is amplitude?
100
The interaction between two waves that meet.
What is interference?
100
The basic unit for distance in the Metric System.
What is a meter?
200
A stretch of land surrounded on three sides by water.
What is a peninsula?
200
The king of the gods, he was known for the thunderbolt and his many children.
Who is Zeus?
200
B to F.
What is a wavelength?
200
The bending of light as it goes around an object.
What is diffraction?
200
Their capital was Tenochtitlan.
Who are the Aztec?
300
The Greek gods were supposed to have lived on this mountain.
What is Mount Olympus?
300
The god of war.
Who is Ares?
300
Letter D
What is a trough?
300
The bending of light as it hits a barrier and bounces back.
What is reflection?
300
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Name the five Great Lakes.
What are Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Superior, and Lake Michigan?
400
Crete is a strip of land completely surrounded by water, also called this.
What is an island?
400
The god of storms, earthquakes, and the sea, he was the "bad guy" in Homer's "Odyssey."
Who is Poseidon?
400
Name the type of wave.
What is transverse?
400
The bending of light as it changes mediums.
What is refraction?
400
Water boils at this temperature in the Metric System.
What is 100 degrees?
500
This was the most important body of water for the Greeks.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
500
The goddess of love and beauty.
Who is Aphrodite?
500
The number of these going by per second.
What is frequency?
500
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The apparent change in pitch of a police siren as it approaches or speeds away is caused by this.
What is the Doppler effect?
500
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Name the colors of the rainbow in order.
What are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet?