Waves
The height of a wave.
What is amplitude?
Volume is related to a wave's ______.
What is amplitude?
The bending of light waves as to make an object look cracked.
What is refraction?
A way of communicating across distances by using a system of short and long beeps, characterized by dots and dashes.
What is Morse code?
The machine that allows us to see pictures of waves.
What is an oscilloscope?
The pitch of a sound wave is directly related to this.
What is a wave's frequency?
The bouncing back of light waves.
What is reflection?
Computers use this method of communication which is a system of 0s and 1s.
What is binary code?
The tissue covering the back of the eye that changes images we see into signals.
What is the retina?
The lowest point on a transverse wave.
What is the trough of a wave?
This type of wave is long enough to actually travel through concrete walls.
What is a low-frequency wave?
This type of material allows only some light to pass through, while this type allows no light to pass through.
What is translucent and opaque?
The process of writing the step-by-step instructions that tell a computer how to complete a task.
What is coding, or programming?
_______ and elasticity of a medium affect the speed of waves traveling through it.
What is density?
The distance from a point on one wave to the same point on the next wave.
What is wavelength?
The speed of sound depends on the _______ through which it is traveling.
What is medium?
You see lighting before you hear thunder because light energy is ______ than sound energy.
What is faster(quicker, etc...)?
It is made up of a system of satellites that work together to share information, using binary code to create an accurate view of Earth.
What is Global Positioning System (GPS)?
This detects objects under water and measures depths of water.
What is sonar?
The order in which sound waves travel through a medium from slowest to fastest.
What is gas, liquid, and solid?
This type of lens will make up-close objects look bigger and far away objects look smaller and upside down.
What is a convex lens?
An inventor who created a code for telegraph machines. (Must have first and last name)
Who is Samuel Morse?
The change in frequency of a wave as its source moves in relation to an observer (listener).
What is Doppler Effect?