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Ear
Waves
EM Waves
Light Waves
Seeing Color
100
The tiny piece of membrane that vibrates back and forth in your ear.
What is the eardrum?
100
This wave makes a up and down motion.
What is a transverse wave?
100
This type of wave allows us to watch tv each day.
What are radio waves?
100
This occurs when light bounces of a surface.
What is reflection?
100
White light is made of the ______________of colors.
What is the spectrum?
200
The three smallest bones in your body.
What is the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
200
This wave makes a back and forth motion.
What is a longitudinal wave?
200
People (even you!) let off these types of waves.
What are infrared waves?
200
This says that the angle that light comes into a surface is the same angle it leaves at.
What is the Law of Reflection?
200
You have a strawberry and it looks red. Which color is reflected off of the strawberry?
What is red?
300
The part of the ear that you can see.
What is the pinna?
300
The highest point of a transverse wave.
What is the crest?
300
The light we can see.
What is visible light?
300
A flashlight dims in a room because of this property of light waves.
What is absorption?
300
White light is created when these three colors are combined.
What is blue, red, and green?
400
The part of the ear looks like a snail and is filled with hairs and liquid.
What is the cochlea?
400
Wavelength in a wave is related to this.
What is distance?
400
These waves can be harmful to your skin.
What are ultraviolet waves?
400
The bending of a wave.
What is refraction?
400
This color is created when blue and green light are combined.
What is cyan?
500
The part of the ear deals with balance.
What are the semicircular canals?
500
The type of wave that is made of magnetic and electric fields.
What is an electromagnetic wave (EM wave)?
500
These two types of waves are used for medical purposes.
What are X rays and gamma rays?
500
The speed at which light travels.
What is 300,000,000 m/s?
500
When all colors of the spectrum are absorbed we see this color.
What is black?