Energy
Work/Simple Machines
Pendulum/waves
Color/electromagnetic waves
Static Electricity
100

Both work and energy are measured in... 

Joules 

100

How many simple machines are there?

6

100

What variable affects the period of a pendulum?

String length

100

The color you see is the color that is...

Reflected 

100

The smallest unit of an element is...

An atom

200

What is potential energy?

The energy possessed by a body of virtue of its position relative to others, stresses within itself, electric charge, and other factors. 

200

Which simple machine would stairs be an example of?

Inclined plane

200

A single disturbance that moves from point to point through a medium is called a... 

A pulse

200

If all light waves are reflected off a medium, then what color will be perceived?

White

200

What charge does an electron have? 

A negative charge

300

What is Kinetic Energy? 

Energy which a body possesses by virtue of being in motion. 

300

A push or pull of an object that causes it to be still

Force 

300

When the particles of a medium are vibrating at right angles to the direction of energy transport, then the wave is a___ wave. 

Transverse

300

What part of the visible spectrum has the highest energy?

Color with the highest frequency, violet. 

300
Two like charges attract 

False

400

Which form of energy does flowing water posses? 

gravitational energy

400

What do you call a machine made up of two or more simple machines? 

Compound/complex machine

400

The main factor which affects the speed of a sound wave is the ___. 

Properties of the medium

400

An electromagnetic wave is a wave that...

Is created by the vibration of an electric charge

400

If an atom loses an electron then...

The atom becomes a positive ion

500

Energy is the ability to? 

Work

500

What is the definition of mechanical advantage? 

A ratio of the force produced by a machine to the force applied to it. 

500

As a wave crosses across a boundary into a new medium, which characteristic of the wave would NOT change?

Frequency

500

What are the primary colors of light?

Red, Green and Blue

500

True or false. A negatively charged object has lost protons. 

True