Light Energy
Sound Basics
Waves & Vibrations
Vocabulary
Tuning Fork Reading
100

One way light travels that can be long, short, visible, or invisible.

What are waves?

100

Two things needed to make sound.

What are vibrations and a medium (like air)?

100

What starts the sound when you play a violin?

What is strings vibrating?

100

Energy means this.

What is the power needed to live and be active?

100

What happens when you hit a tuning fork?

What is it vibrates and makes sound?

200

This type of object lets light pass through.

What is transparent?

200

The part of your body that vibrates to make sound.

What are vocal cords?

200

What happens after vibrations? Sound travels through this.

What is air?

200

Another word for “illuminates.”

What is brightens?

200

A tuning fork that vibrates slowly makes this pitch.

What is low pitch?

300

This type of object blocks light and forms a shadow.

What is opaque?

300

What must sound travel through: solid, liquid, or gas?

What is a medium?

300

What receives sound waves?

What are ears?

300

Which word describes something you cannot see through?

What is opaque?

300

Longer prongs make this kind of pitch.

What is lower pitch?

400

True or False: The moon is the main source of white light.

What is false?

400

Can sound travel in space (a vacuum)? Yes or No.

What is no?

400

Faster vibrations create this type of pitch.

What is high pitch?

400

What does “magnify” mean?

What is make something look bigger?

400

Why do musicians use tuning forks?

What is to tune instruments?

500

All the colors of the rainbow together make this.

What is white light?

500

Sounds with greater ______ are louder.

What is intensity?

500

Shorter strings create this type of pitch.

What is higher pitch?

500

All the colors we can see are called this.

What is the spectrum?

500

How many vibrations per second for the note “A”?

What is 440?