Wave
What is the term for the highest point of a transverse wave?
Crest
What are the two types of electric charge?
Negative and Positive charges
What do we call a push or a pull?
Force
Which animal can see in the dark very well?
Owl/Cat
Why do astronauts float?
No gravity
Wave type that requires a medium to travel (for example, sound).
Mechanical Wave
Describe what happens when two like charges are brought near each other.
Repel
What force pulls you down toward the ground?
Gravity
Which animal can run the fastest on land?
Cheetah
What is the name of our galaxy?
Milky Way
The distance between two consecutive crests (or troughs) in a wave is called what?
Wavelength
What happens to electrons when an object becomes positively charged?
Electrons move away from the object (loss of electrons) leaving it with net positive charge.
If two people push a box from opposite sides with the same strength, will the box move? Yes or no.
No (Balanced Force)
Which animal can sleep standing up?
Horse
What planet has rings?
Saturn
Sound travels fastest through solids, liquids, or gases?
Solids
What force slows things down when they rub together?
Friction
I carry my home on my back.
Turtle/Snail
What happens to sound in space?
It cannot travel
What happens to waves when you turn the volume up?
Amplitude increases
Jellyfish have no brain.
True
What is the closest star to Earth?
Sun