Light
Sound
Differences & Similarities
Inventors
Morphology
100

What is our greatest source of light?

The sun

100

When you hum, what do your vocal cords do?

Vibrate

100

Which one can't travel through space and why?

Sound because there is no medium for the sound to be carried through.

100

Alexander Graham Bell's Dad invented what?

Visible Speech
100

Change these sentences into one sentence using a conjunction.

I like corn. I like peas.

I like corn and I like peas.

200

What do opaque objects do when light hits them?

Make a shadow

200

High pitch sounds have _________ waves and low pitched sounds have _______ waves.

shorter, longer

200

Light travels fastest through _________ and sound travels fastest through ____________.

a vacuum, a solid

200

Who helped Alexander Graham Bell invent the telephone?

Thomas Watson

200

Which word is the adverb in the sentence below?

The girl screamed loudly.

loudly

300

What does a prism do?

Refract white light into all the colors of the rainbow.

300

The loudness or intensity of a sound is called the....

Volume

300

Light travels at _____________________ and sound travels at ________________.

186,000 miles per second, 750 miles per hour

300

Name one of Thomas Edison's inventions.

phonograph, kinetoscope, microphone, light bulb

300

What do you call a person who plays the guitar?

guitarist

400

What type of light waves are used in a remote control?

Infrared

400

Name a low pitched sound and a high pitched sound.

Answers may vary

400

How do both light and sound travel?

In waves

400

What was the first phrase spoken through a telephone?

"Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you."

400

What is the adverb in the sentence below and is it describing where, when, or how?

Sometimes, I ride my bike to school.

Sometimes, when

500

When light changes speed, the angle of the light ray bends. What is this called?

Refraction

500

What two things need to happen for you to hear a sound?

Something needs to vibrate and create sound waves, a medium needs to carry the sound waves.

500

Why can you see lightning before you hear thunder and what is thunder? Use the words "light" and "sound" in your answer.

Light travels faster than sound. Thunder is the sound that lightning makes.

500

In 1837 what inventor created the telegraph?

Samuel Morse

500

Which word has a suffix on it, what is the suffix, and what does it mean?

While the farmer was mending the fence, the horse ran off.

farmer, -er, a person who farms