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Ear
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Miscellaneous
100
Light moves in waves and in this way.
What is a straight line?
100
Reflects every color of light except red light.
What is red?
100

These two physical factors affect the speed of sound:

What is temperature and medium?

100
All sound is created when matter does this.
What is vibrates?
100
The material that allows light to pass through but scatters it.
What is translucent?
200

The only kind of electromagnetic waves you can see.

What are light waves?

200
Includes all the light that you can see.
What is the visible spectrum?
200

The first step in hearing is when sound waves make this part of your ear vibrate.

What is the eardrum/outer ear?

200
The loudness or softness of a sound
What is volume?
200

A small buildup of this sticky substance in the human ear canal can result in temporary hearing loss.

What is a earwax?

300

This is the medium that sound waves travel SLOWEST in.

What is a gas?

300
The color of sunlight.
What is white?
300
This carries sound waves to the brain.
What is the nerve?
300

The perception of how high or low a sound is known as:

What is an pitch?

300
They travel through different materials at different speeds.
What are sound waves?
400
Something that light does not pass through.
What is opaque?
400

This is the shorest color of the visible light spectrum.

What is violet?

400
This helps catch sound waves and direct them into the ear canal.
What is the ear?
400

This is higher from sounds made from thin strings on a guitar and lower from the sounds made by thick strings on a guitar.

What is pitch?

400

This part of the human ear makes sound waves louder and includes the eardrum and three tiny bones: the hammer the anvil the stirrup.

What is the middle ear?

500

The substance through which a wave travels (ex. gas, liquid, solid)

What is a medium?

500
This the color you see when all of the colors are absorbed.
What is black?
500
The three small bones in the ear.
What are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
500

A reflected sound wave (ex. sound bouncing off a mountain)

What is a echo?

500

Loudness of a sound is measured in what?

What are decibels (dB)?