Waves
Vocabulary
Types of energy
Electromagnetic Spectrum
Grab Bag
100
This is the highest part of the wave.
What is crest?
100
This vocabulary word means a light particle.
What is photon?
100
This type of energy gives us heat, and a lot of it comes from the sun.
What is thermal energy?
100
This kind of wave has the lowest wavelength on the spectrum.
What is a gamma ray?
100
A class that Mr.Eckley teaches, and is about energy and work.
What is physical science?
200
This is a word that means the measurement of a wave.
What is amplitude?
200
This long word is another way of saying a sound that sounds bad.
What is dissonance?
200
This energy lets us see, and is the opposite of dark.
What is light energy?
200
This wave is right next to visible light (the right side)
What is an infrared wave?
200
The unit that force and weight are measured with in the metric system.
What is a newton?
300
This chart shows every kind of wave and it's wavelength.
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
300
This vocabulary word that ends with nce and starts with f is about light.
What is fluorescence?
300
This form of energy lets us move and usually comes in through food.
What is chemical energy?
300
This wave has the least amount of energy.
What is a radio wave?
300
A rope system that usually gives you a mechanical advantage so you can do less work and still lift the same amount of mass.
What is a pulley?
400
This is what really happens when a pencil looks broken inside water.
What is refraction?
400
This vocabulary word is what happens when a sound changes pitch because it's moving.
What is the doppler effect?
400
This kind of energy turns into kinetic energy.
What is potential energy?
400
This wave comes from the sun and can give you cancer.
What is ultraviolet?
400
A chart that shows every element we know exists and puts them into categories with a two letter code for every element.
What is the periodic table?
500
Scientists a long time ago thought space was filled with this.
What is ether?
500
This word is when something glows because it has a high temperature.
What is incandescence?
500
This energy gives a lot of houses power.
What is electrical energy?
500
This kind of wave is to the right of gamma rays on the chart.
What is x-ray?
500
The best science teacher ever.
Who is Mr.Eckley?