Mirrors and Reflections
A shiny surface that reflects light.
What is a mirror?
When you look through this type of lens, an object will look larger and closer.
What is convex?
You can remember the names of the colors in the visible light spectrum in the right order if you can remember this funny name.
What is ROY G BIV?
The loudness or intensity of a sound
What is volume?
When you have shorter vocal cords, you tend to speak at a higher ______.
What is pitch?
When light bounces off of something in its path.
What is reflection?
If you look through this type of lens, an object will look smaller. It looks smaller because the light waves are spread apart.
What is concave?
When an object reflects all of the white light wavelengths and doesn’t absorb any light, it appears this color.
What is white?
How high or low a sound is
What is pitch?
Your vocal cords create sound by doing this.
What is vibration?
The reflection of something in this type of mirror is almost the same size as the real object.
What is a plane mirror?
A convex lens that makes things look larger when they are held close to the lens.
What is a magnifying glass?
A wedge-shaped piece of transparent glass.
What is a prism?
A series of vibrations that can be heard (or how sound travels)
What are sound waves?
A tube that air passes through going to and from the lungs.
What is the trachea?
These two types of mirrors make your reflection look distorted.
What are concave and convex?
The appearance of light bending when it moves from one medium to another.
What is refraction?
The distribution of all the colors that make up the light we see.
What is spectrum?
A substance that sound needs to travel through, like a solid, a liquid, or a gas.
What is a medium?
The organ in your throat that holds the vocal cords and makes it possible to speak.
What is the larynx?
If a mirror is reflecting sunlight, it reflects light energy and this type of energy as well.
What is heat energy?
When light changes speed, the _____ of the light rays change and appear to bend.
What is an angle?
Short, invisible light waves, beyond violet on the spectrum, that cause sunburn.
What is ultraviolet light waves?
One place that sound cannot travel.
What is outer space?
The medium that allows sound to travel out of your lungs, trachea, and larynx to create your voice.
What is air?