Energy
What energy is stored in an object?
Potential Energy
All moving things have what?
Kinetic Energy
What is volume?
How strong a sound seems to us.
A piece of glass that separates white light into different wavelengths.
Prism
The sun gives what type of energy?
Light Energy
Does sound travel faster in fresh water or air?
Fresh water
What is amplitude?
The height of a wave measured from the midline.
Transfer of heat as matter moves
Convection
What energy helps you feel the flow of heat?
Thermal Energy
What is frequency?
The number of waves that pass a point in a certain amount of time.
True or false: Only sound energy travels in waves?
False
Energy that is sent out in waves.
Radiation
What is the energy of motion?
Kinetic Energy
What is a wavelength?
The distance between a point on a wave and the similar point on the next wave.
Occurs when an object takes in light.
Absorption
Transfer of heat when one thing touches another.
Conduction
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What is pitch?
How high or low a sound is.
The bending of light when it passes into a new medium.
Refraction
What else can act like a prism?
Raindrop