Wave Properties
The top of a wave is called this.
What is a crest?
The wave that helps us hear our environment.
What is sound? or What is a sound wave?
This type of wave helps us see.
What is visible light?
Noticing something with your five senses.
What is an observation?
This is Ms. Crocker's favorite color.
What is green?
Measuring from crest to crest or trough to trough gets you this.
Wavelength
Examples of this type of wave include light and ocean waves.
What is a transverse wave?
When light or sound bounces off of a substance or object.
What is reflection?
The if, then statement that can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
Ms. Crocker's favorite snack.
What is popcorn?
The height or "strength" of the wave is called this.
Amplitude
This type of wave requires a medium (a solid, liquid, or a gas) in order to travel.
What is a mechanical wave?
When light enters a substance and leaves the substance going a different direction.
What is refraction?
A statement based on prior knowledge + an observation.
What is an inference?
The name of Ms. Crocker's orange cat.
Who is Bug?
How many waves there are in a given amount of time or distance is called this.
What is frequency?
This type of wave can be felt as heat, and has a longer wavelength than visible light.
What is an infrared wave?
If you combine beams of red, green, and blue light, this color will appear.
What is the color white? What is white?
A scientist doing the same test over and over again.
What is replication?
Ms. Crocker's favorite videogame SERIES. It is known for being EXTREMELY difficult.
What is Dark Souls?
The so-called resting position of a wave is found here on a wave diagram.
This type of wave have the highest frequency and shortest wavelength on the entire electromagnetic spectrum.
What is a gamma ray?
Light travels fastest through this.
What is a vacuum? or What is empty space?
When a different scientist takes an experiment and redoes it to ensure reliability and accuracy of the experimental methods and results.
What is replication?
This is the degree Ms. Crocker got in college.
What is a degree in Environmental Studies? or What is a degree in Environmental Science?