Waves
To move from one place to another
What is to transfer?
A sound or an action that sends a message
What is a signal?
A device that takes in radio waves
What is an antenna?
This means to "take in"
What is absord?
The highest point of a wave
What is the crest?
This is the part of the ear that sounds like an instrument
What is the eardrum?
A disturbance that transfers energy from place to place
What is a wave?
A signal that uses clear-cut values
What is a digital signal?
A device that converts the radio waves into a usable message
What is a receiver?
To comes into sight
What is appear?
The lowest point of a wave
What is the trough?
The part of the eye that controls the amount of light that comes into the eye
What is the pupil?
What is a wave period?
A signal that sends information in a continuous stream.
What is an analog signal?
A device that sends out signals in the form of radio waves
What is a transmitter?
When something bounces off of a surface
What is to reflect?
The height of a wave
What is amplitude?
The nerve in the eye that carries an image to your brain
What is the optic nerve?
A wave that moves perpendicular to the direction of the particles (think an ocean wave)
What is a transverse wave?
All of the possibilities between two end points
What is a range?
This increases when you turn something up to make it louder
What is amplitude?
When something bends when it hits a medium
What is refract? bigmac
The number of waves passing a point in a given amount of time
What is frequency?
These vibrate when sounds come into the ear
What are the bones of the middle ear?
A wave that moves in the same direction as the particles (think a slinky)
What is a longitudinal wave?
A group of parts that work together as a whole
What is a system?
This measures the intensity of sound
What is a decibel?
A line of energy that continues in one direction until it hits an object
What is a ray?
The distance between two corresponding parts of a wave
What is wavelength?
The three main parts of the ear
What is the outer ear, inner ear, and middle ear?