Mechanical Waves
This is an example of a mechanical wave.
What is sound?
This is an example of an electromagnetic wave.
What is light?
This is the top of a wave.
What is the crest?
This is the energy conversion that happens with our auditory system.
What is sound energy turning into electrical energy?
This is the energy conversion that happens with our visual system.
What is light energy turning into electrical energy?
This is what mechanical waves must travel through.
What is a medium?
What is it doesn't require a medium to travel through?
This is the height of a wave.
What is the amplitude?
This part of the ear in the cochlea keeps our balance.
What is fluid?
This part of the eye constricts and dilates the pupil. It is also a color.
What is the iris?
This occurs when an object with sound passes by.
This is the incident angle of light when the reflection angle is 95 degrees.
What is a 95 degree incident angle?
This is the number of waves.
What is the frequency?
This first vibrates as soon as sound enters your ear canal.
What is the ear drum (or different parts of the ear drum: hammer, anvil, or stirrup)?
This part of the eye transforms light energy into electrical energy.
What is the retina?
This is what happens to volume and pitch as a siren gets farther away from you.
What is a decrease in volume and pitch?
This is the transparency of a clear window.
What is transparent?
As energy of a wave increases, frequency ____.
What is frequency increasing?
This part of your ear turns sound energy into electrical energy.
What is the nerve fibers from the hair cells in the cochlea?
The brain has several jobs when it comes to the eye. What does the brain do with what we see?
Several answers include: what is flip what we see right-side up? What is add detail to what we see by using context? What is putting together what we see like one movie?
This is what amplitude affects in a sound wave.
What is volume of a sound wave?
Air is an example of this when light travels through it.
What is a medium?
These are the two main types of waves.
What are mechanical and electromagnetic waves?
This part of your ear transfers the electrical energy from your nerve fibers to your brain.
What is the auditory nerve?
This part of the eye transfers electrical energy from the eye to the brain.
What is the optical nerve?