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Lights, Camera, Action
Do You Hear What I Hear
Waves and More Waves
Smoking Mirrors
EM, what is it good for
100
Matter that transmits light.
What is transparent?
100
How high or how low you think a sound is.
What is pitch?
100
An image produced where the refracted or reflected light converges.
What is a real image?
100
Widely used in the cooking industry
What is microwaves?
200
Transfer of energy as EM waves
What is radiation?
200
The part of the ear that transmits sound waves into electrical signals for the brain.
What is the inner ear?
200
This wave consists of rarefactions and compressions.
What is a longitudinal or compression wave?
200
A mirror that curves inward.
What is a concave mirror?
200
Has the longest wavelength on the EM spectrum.
What is radio wave?
300
The transfer of light energy to matter.
What is absorption?
300
The measure of how well a sound can be heard.
What is loudness?
300
This wave consists of amplitude, wavelength, trough, and crest.
What is a transverse wave?
300
This lens has a thick center and thin edges.
What are convex lens?
300
Has the highest frequency and highest energy on the EM spectrum that can penetrate most matter.
What is gamma rays?
400
The bouncing of light off a surface.
What is reflection?
400
It depends on the frequency and the wavelength.
What are the factors that determine pitch?
400
The number of waves in a given amount of time.
What is frequency?
400
A mirror with a flat surface that produces virtual, upright and inverted images.
What is a plane mirror?
400
The color that has the longest wavelength.
What is red?
500
The bending of light when it changes medium.
What is refraction?
500
A change in the observed frequency of a wave when the sound source, the observer, or both are moving?
What is the Doppler Effect?
500
A phenomenon when two objects naturally vibrate at the same frequency.
What is resonance?
500
A mirror that produces both real and virtual image.
What is a concave mirror?
500
Used to identify heat signatures of people lost in the wilderness.
What is infrared.