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What are the colors of the rainbow?

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet

Bill playing the guitar is an example of what type of energy?

Sound (Mechanical energy)

__________ measures how fast the average atom in a material.

Temperature

_______ through which it travels (moves faster at higher temperatures because they have greater kinetic energy)

Temperature of the medium

Energy travels in what direction?

all directions

What do radio waves bounce off of before returning to the earth?

atmosphere

Why will sound not travel in a vacuum?

because sound must have a medium through which to travel.

X-rays waves are _____ than light waves so they have higher ______.

closer together energy

The ____ an object appears depends on the colors of light it ____.

color reflects

A ___ lens causes light to diverge, or spread out, producing a larger image than the original.

concave

A ____ lens is thinner in the middle than on the ends.

concave

What is it called when heat is transferred directly from one object to another?

conduction

What kind of transfer happens in a vacuum?

conduction

___ is the transfer of thermal energy between particles within a substance.

conduction

what kind of heat transfer requires objects to touch each other.

conduction

What are the three ways heat is transferred through the universe?

conduction, convection, and radiation

_____ is a transfer of thermal energy by the movement of currents within a fluid.

convection

______ can not occur in a solid.

convection

what kind of heat transfer goes on when warm air rises?

convection

what would this be ocean currents or jet streams

convection

A ____ lens causes light to converge, or focus, producing an image that is smaller than the original

convex

A ____ lens is thicker in the middle than on the ends. It bends light waves toward a point. Your eye is a convex lens.

convex

As the cooler fluid moves ______, the warmer fluid ____.

down rises

Heat is _____ and can do _____.

energy work

when fluid becomes hot, it _______ and becomes _______ than the cool fluid on top.

expands lighter

(True or False) Sound is not a type of mechanical energy.

false

(true or false) Sound will travel in a vacuum.

false

Light travels very _____.

fast

Light travels much _____ than sound.

faster

The hotter some thing is the _____ the molecules move.

faster

To have a convection the material must be able to ____ - like liquids or gases.

flow

How often waves repeat is called their _____.

frequency

_____ is the number of waves moving past a point in one second.

frequency

As maters movies it takes _____ energy with it.

heat

____ is the movement of thermal energy from one substance to another.

heat

_______ is thermal energy that moves from one object to another.

heat

Amplitude describes a wave's ____.

height

Amplitude is the _____ of the wave.

height

If atoms are moving fast the material would have a ____ temperature.

high

The cool air moves _____ and pushes the warm air up.

in air

Where does heat go that your body gives off?

it goes everywhere (air and outer space)

Waves are slower than ____ waves.

light

What spectrum is made up of different waves?

light (electromagnetic energy)

Thunder and lightning start at the same time, but we will see the ____ first.

lightning

Radio waves are _____.

long

Low note= long pipe= _____ waves

longer

low pitch low frequency ____ wavelength

longer

Radio ____ electromagnetic waves.

longest

A _____ is something that waves will travel through

medium

_____ : materials that do not let light through.

opaque

____ is the measure of how high or low a sound is.

pitch

A pair of purple paints would reflect ____ light.

purple (red,blue,)

Even cold things _____.

radiate

How is heat transformed from the sun?

radiation

____ is the transfer of electromagnetic waves.

radiation

A red book only reflects ___ light.

red

We see things because they ___ light into our eyes.

reflect

Light gets _____ from a surface at the same angle it hits.

reflected

____ : the bouncing of light from a surface.

reflected

____ : the bending of light as it passes through one material to another.

refracted

______ is when waves speed up or slow down due to travelling in different mediums.

refraction

Earthquake waves are called ______ waves.

seismic

A white hat would reflect all _____

seven colors

All waves have similar _____.

shape

gamma rays are _____.

short

high pitch high frequency ____ wavelength

shorter

Gamma Rays _____ electromagnetic waves.

shortest

Molecules in cold things moves more _____ than hot things.

slowly

When a starting pistol is fired we see the ___ fist and then hear the ____

smoke bang

Conduction's occur more easily in ____ than ____.

solid liquid

Mediums are ____, _____, and _____.

solid liquid gas

All sound is carried through matter as ___ waves.

sound

Musical instruments make ____ waves

sound

____ is back and forth movement of molecules of matter.

sound

_____ is vibration

sound

Sonar uses ___ waves to tell how _____ things are in the water.

sound far away

Light travels in ____ lines.

straight

The _____ warms the ground and heats the air

sun

Total energy of all particles in a substance or material is called ______ energy, or sometimes internal energy.

thermal

_____ : letting light through but scattering it.

translucent

_____ : materials that allow all light to pass through.

transparent

(True or False) Sound is a type of mechanical energy.

true

The air molecules move ___- and get (closer together/farther apart).

up

Sound waves move out in all directions from a ____ object.

vibrating

Heat always travels from _____ objects to ______ objects,

warmer colder

The distance from wave to wave is called _____.

wavelength

____ is the distance between one part of the wave and the same part of the next wave.

wavelength

Earthquake energy travels as ______.

waves

Energy moves in _____.

waves

Energy,Light,and sound all travel as _____.

waves

Heat radiation is made up of _____.

waves

Waves are hand crafted by _____ on the ocean.

wind

____ light is not a single color.

White

Heat is measured in ______ or ______.

Calories Joules

_________ occurs when two materials are in direct contact with each other-must be touching.

Conduction

(true or false) Sound will not travel in a vacuum.

True

What two things does sound depend on?

Type of Medium and temerature of medium.

____ through which it travels. (moves faster in solids because particles are closer together)

Type of medium

____ are slower than light waves.

Waves

____ light is made up of a mixture of the seven colors of the rainbow.

White


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