Wave Properties
Vocabulary
Waves and Energy
Sound Waves
Random Science
100
What property refers to the size/height of the wave?
What is amplitude.
100
The movement of a longitudinal wave is?
What is parallel to the rest position?
100
What is the full formula you would use if the amplitude of a wave changed?
100
Sound waves can be measured with which tool?
What is an oscilloscope.
100
A WIFI signal is what type of wave?
What is a radio wave?
200
Which two wave properties always affect each other?
What is wavelength and frequency?
200
The matter that energy travels through.
What is a medium?
200
If a person is singing a song keep the same volume the whole time. But during the song the energy needed to sing increases from 5 joules to 20 joules. How is the pitch of the person's voice changing?
What is frequency quadrupling?
200
This is a _______________ wave.
What is longitudinal?
200
What common organ cannot be found in starfish?
What is a brain?
300
The distance between two identical points on two adjacent waves is the wave's _________.
What is wavelength?
300
Waves are caused by a ___________?
What is a disturbance?
300
What type or relationship do frequency and energy have?
What is a directly proportional relationship?
300
Volume is to _______, as Pitch is to __________.
What is amplitude, frequency?
300
The hottest planet of the solar system.
What is Venus?
400
What is the name of the man who discovered radio waves and to which the units of frequency are named after? (First and LAST name)
Who is Heinrich Hertz?
400
Write down 4 examples of waves that you encounter in everyday life.
Examples: sound, ocean waves, WIFI, light, seismic waves (earthquakes), ripples, tsunamis, microwaves, radio waves, etc.
400
Calculate the new energy in a wave if a wave with an energy of 7 joules increases by 5 times its size.
What is 175 joules?
400
Sound doesn't travel in space because __________?
Sound waves need a medium to travel (air particles) and space is a vacuum.
400
Sound waves travel fastest through which state of matter?
What is solid?
500
Different WIFI networks have signals in which the waves differ in which wave property?
What is different frequencies?
500
A jumprope is to a _____________ wave as a slinky is to a ______________ wave.
transverse, longitudinal
500
A sound wave's original energy is 5 joules and it's frequency is 1 hertz. If the wave's amplitude and frequency BOTH triple. How much energy will transfer to the human ear?
What is 135 joules?
500
What do we call the region of a sound wave where the molecules are spread out?
What is a rarefaction?
500
The percentage of dust that is made of human bodies.
What is 70%?