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Sound
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Wave Parts
How Waves Act
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100
What type of wave is sound?
What is Compressional
100
Light waves do not need ________ to travel from place to place.
What is matter.
100
The distance from one point on a wave to the next point on a wave just like it.
What is wavelength
100
What produces waves?
What is a vibration.
100
What two things must be multiplied together to solve for the speed of a wave?
What is frequency and wavelength
200
Sound travels ___________ in water than in air.
What is faster
200
When light bounces off an object, we call this _______.
What is reflection.
200
The distance between the resting point of a wave and its crest or trough.
What is amplitude.
200
Bending of a wave that is caused by a changing of its speed as it moves from one medium to another
What is refraction.
200
Waves transfer ________.
What is energy.
300
If two sound waves constructively interfere with each other, the sound will do what?
What is "get louder"
300
What object separates white light into its separate color parts?
What is a prism.
300
The number of wavelengths that pass a fixed point each second
What is frequency.
300
Occurs when an object causes a wave to change direction and bend around it. The wave is trying to get around the object.
What is diffraction.
300
What is the unit for frequency?
What is Hertz (Hz)
400
Change in pitch or frequency due to the relative motion of a wave source
What is the Doppler Effect
400
The part inside your eye that detects different colors
What are cones.
400
Region where parts of a compressional wave are spread out
What is a rarefaction.
400
Process by which an object is to vibrate by absorbing energy at its natural frequencies
What is resonance
400
What does the speed of a wave depend on?
What is the medium its traveling through?
500
Emitting sounds and detecting the waves that reflect back
What is echolocation
500
A colored material that is used to change the color of another substance.
What is a pigment
500
The amount of time it takes one wavelength to pass a point.
What is a period.
500
When two or move waves overlap and combine to form a new wave
What is interference.
500
What do we call the human perception of the frequency of a sound?
What is pitch.