LIGHT Vocabulary
What is Light?
SOUND VOCABULARY
What is Sound
Language Skills
100
What is a shiny surface that reflects light?
mirror
100
What is one way that light from the sun travels?
In waves
100
What are series of vibrations that can be heard?
Sound waves
100
What is a form of energy caused by the vibration of particles and that travels in waves?
sound
100
What does an ADVERB do?
describes a verb (action)
200
What is an area of darkness created when light is blocked by something?
shadow
200
What color is in white light?
all the colors in the rainbow
200
What are muscles that produce sound when air passes over them?
Vocal Cords
200
How do we sense the vibrations of sound waves?
our ears receive the sound waves
we can feel vibrations through solid objects
200
What two letters do adverbs usually end in?
-ly
300
What is the distribution of all the colors that make up the light we see?
spectrum
300
What are 3 sources of light?
sun, flashlights, candles, lightbulbs, stars, lightning bugs
300
The car alarm created a __________ because it was very loud and harsh sounding, causing the dogs in the area to bark.
cacophony
300
What are 3 types of mediums that sound can travel through?
solids, liquids, gases
300
What are the 7 conjunctions that we use to make compound sentences?
FANBOYS!
for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so
400
What is light that is made up of waves with different wavelengths and includes all the colors we can see?
white light
400
Where do light waves travel the fastest?
in space, in a vacuum
400
If you are near a jet engine, you need to wear equipment to protect your ears because of the very high _________ of the sound waves.
frequency
400
Can a vacuum be a medium for sound?
no
400
Which word in the sentence is an adverb?
Matthew threw the football perfectly to Noah.
perfectly
500
What describes an object that allows some light to pass through, so that you are able to see the form of an object but not a clear image.
translucent
500
What things make light waves slow down?
water, air, other liquids
500
Sound waves travel more easily through a solid ________ like a brick wall than through a liquid medium like water.
medium
500
Does sound travel fastest through solid, liquid, or gas?
solid
500
Which word would correctly fill in the blank?
mysterious mysteriously
My dog __________ disappeared from our yard today, so he must have dug under the fence again.
mysteriously
600
What are short, invisible light waves, beyond violet on the spectrum, that cause sunburn?
ultraviolet
600
What things can light waves not travel through?
trees, walls, us, solid objects, opaque objects, etc.
600
When we went to the opera, the singer on stage sang in a very high _____.
pitch
600
Which form of energy needs a medium to travel?
Light or Sound?
sound
600
Which word would correctly fill in the blank?
furious furiously
The _______ girl shouted at the boy who took her toy.
furious
700
What curves inward, like the inside of a bowl?
concave
700
Grass, trees, flowers, people, and animals need what to survive?
light
700
A satellite dish is an example of a ________ because it receives signals from satellites so that we can get different channels on our television set.
receiver
700
How do length of sound waves affect pitch?
long waves =low frequency = low pitch
short waves =high frequency = high pitch
700
Mother receives her pay on Fridays.
What part of speech is pay in this sentence?
noun
800
What curves outward, like the outside of a bowl?
convex
800
What happens when light rays hit a tree or other object and cannot bend around it?
it makes a shadow or shade
800
The ________ in my telephone broke, which made it impossible for a person on the other end of the phone line to hear anything that was said.
transmitter
800
Which one has a high-pitched tone?
baby
800
The child pecked at her food without eating much.
What part of speech is peck in this sentence?
verb
900
What is a tube with plane mirrors and pieces of colored glass that you hold up to the light and rotate to make colorful patterns?
kaleidoscope
900
Does light travel in a straight line or bend around objects?
straight line
900
While singing or playing a musical instrument, one can create smooth ________ between sounds, or produce different musical notes.
variations
900
Sounds with greater______ are louder and travel farther.
A quiet sound, like a whisper, doesn't travel very far.
intensity
900
How can you fix this sentence?
Nobody never came.
Nobody ever came.
No one ever came.
1000
What does it mean to make something look larger or sound louder?
magnify
1000
How fast does light travel in a vacuum?
186,000 miles a second
1000
What is a tool for communicating by sending
electrical signals by wire or radio?
telegraph
1000
What body parts work together to produce your voice?
lungs, diaphragm, vocal cords, trachea, larynx (voice box)
1000
How can you fix this sentence?
You're not paying no attention.
You're not paying any attention.
You're paying no attention.
You're not paying attention.