Light Waves
What is the law of reflection?
Angle of incidence = angle of reflection
What are sound waves caused by?
Vibrations
Which planet is closest to the sun?
Mercury
What colors make up the visible light spectrum?
All colors, or the rainbow make up the visible light spectrum
What is the capital city of France?
Paris
What is the process called where a light wave changes speed or direction when entering a different material?
Refraction
What vibrates in a trombone to produce sound?
Air
Name one of the ice giant planets.
Uranus or Neptune
Red
Which author wrote Matilda?
Roald Dahl
What is the angle of normal on a ray diagram?
90 degrees
What does frequency tell you about a sound wave?
How often there is a wave
What is the name for planets that do not orbit our star?
Exoplanets
Which part of the eye is where the image forms?
Retina
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
What type of lens causes light rays to converge to a focal point?
Convex
What are the 3 mediums that sound waves can travel through?
Solid, liquid, and gas
What is the name of the space telescope launched in 1990?
Hubble space telescope
Which type of lens would be used to correct long sightedness?
Convex lens
In which city were the first modern Olympics held?
Athens, Greece
What does a concave lens cause light rays to do?
Diverge
What is the speed of sound in air?
340 metres per second
What is the name of the first man in space?
Yuri Gagarin
What is the name for the photoreceptor in the eye that detects colour?
Cone
Which monarch reigned from 1837 to 1901?