Commonly Missed Quiz Questions
What makes each of the colors that make up white light different?
What is wavelength?
A wave that can be heard?
What is a sound wave?
This is the only electromagnetic wave that humans can see.
How does light differ from other forms of electromagnetic waves?
This is what causes water particles to move in small circles.
What is waves?
Any object absolute zero gives off this type of radiation, which can be detected by a thermal camera.
What is infrared radiation?
This is what a Geiger counter is used to detect.
What is gamma rays?
This is produced when an energy source causes matter to vibrate?
What are sound waves?
This happens when light passes through matter.
What is transmission?
This is the region of a longitudinal wave where the partials are farthest apart.
What is rarefaction?
Waves can interact with matter through this.
What can interact with it by reflection, refraction and defraction?
A “black light” uses this radiation to make some objects glow.
What is ultraviolet rays?
The biggest difference between light and sound waves when it comes to matter.
Sound waves can only travel through this?
These differ by wavelength and frequency?
How do light waves differ from other forms of electromagnetic waves other than how humans can see it?
A material that can block out radio waves and other electromagnetic waves.
What is a faraday cage?
This is a type of wave that can travel through matter and empty space.
What is an electromagnetic wave?
These types of sound waves have a larger amplitude than quieter sound waves.
What are Louder sound waves?
The perception on how high or low a sound seems.
What is the pitch?
This is what it is called when light cannot pass through matter.
What is opaque?
This type of wave is used to cook food.
What is a mircrowave?
All waves transfer this from one place to another.
What is energy?
Frequency measures this.
Which wave property measures how many waves pass a point in one second?
A decibel.
What unit is used to measure sound intensity or loudness?
This is the only constant in the Universe.
What is light?
This is another type wave that is an earthquake wave.
What is a seismic wave?
This is the unit frequency is measured in.
What is a hertz?