waves sound light mirror and lenses test
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| AM Radio Waves Ultraviolet Light X Rays Visible Light What is true for ALL of the examples of electromagnetic waves? | show 🗑
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| Sound waves travel fastest through A) air. B) steel. C) water. D) a vacuum. | show 🗑
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| show | wave with wavelength of 600 km
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| show | They are inversely proportional.
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| show | Radio Waves
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| Sound travels fastest through A) space. B) cool air. C) warm air. D) a metal spoon. | show 🗑
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| show | sound waves
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| show | 5
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| A pebble is thrown into a calm lake, ripples are formed from the center and move outward. The water particles in the lake travel in a circular pattern that moves up and down on the surface of a lake, and the energy travels | show 🗑
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| show | density
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| show | radio waves
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| show | the Doppler effect
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| show | energy
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| show | longer,less
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| show | smaller
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| show | highest
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| one Klingon spaceship blows up a Droid spaceship with a laser gun. The Klingon crew watches out the port window and covers their ears to muffle the noise from the explosion. Scientifically, this scene is inaccurate because | show 🗑
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| When light enters a pair of glasses, it ______________ when it hits the glass. | show 🗑
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| show | focusing light through a camera lens
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| When light hits a smooth, shiny surface, the light | show 🗑
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| show | reflection
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| Houses with carpet are much quieter than houses with tile or hardwood floors because of sound wave | show 🗑
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| show | diffraction
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| In which medium would sound travel the fastest? | show 🗑
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| show | Doppler effect
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| show | As the source approaches you, the sound waves are compressed so the pitch of the noise increases.
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| Why does the sound of something moving away from you seem to change to a lower and lower pitch? | show 🗑
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| show | As a sound source moves away from a stationary object, the sound waves are compressed, increasing the pitch.
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| show | do not require a medium
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| What type of waves move energy forward, but the source moves up and down? | show 🗑
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| Why does light refract when it encounters the glass in a lens? | show 🗑
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| show | They both transmit energy
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| show | energy
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| show | X-rays
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| show | The sound would reach him sooner.
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| Dolphins communicate using compression waves. Some of these sounds are outside the range of human hearing. Upon spotting a hungry shark, dolphin A sends a message to dolphin B. To send this message as quickly as possible, dolphin A would | show 🗑
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| show | dry ice - solid carbon dioxide
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| show | As the ambulance gets closer, the sound waves are compressed relative to the person; so the frequency increases.
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| What does the person in back of the ambulance experience? | show 🗑
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| When describing electromagnetic radiation, there is a(n) _____________ relationship between wavelength and frequency and the greater the frequency, the ____________ energy the electromagnetic radiation has | show 🗑
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| show | the sound waves were pushed closer together.
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| show | sound is molecules bumping into one another.
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| show | light and sound
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| show | light waves travel faster than sound waves.
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| A student observes that it is hard to hear music underwater in a pool. They state that the sound is always muffled. They conclude that the speed of sound in water must be slower than in air. What would you say about the validity of this conclusion? | show 🗑
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| show | decreases; increases
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| show | reflected back at you.
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| We can see because light is | show 🗑
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| Although you can see the pencil, it appears broken in the glass of water. This is because | show 🗑
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| The speed of sound waves through two different media, steel and air | show 🗑
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| As the band passed by, the beating drums and trumpets made Billy feel like his body was beating with the music. He could hear the music and he could feel it! How would a scientist explain this to Billy? | show 🗑
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| show | electromagnetic waves must have a medium in which to travel, but sound waves can travel anywhere.
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| It is recommended that children have no more than two sets of dental X-rays per year. Although X-rays have many benefits, they can be dangerous to human health because they are | show 🗑
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| show | gamma
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| Burned Becky stayed out in the sun too long and is now suffering from a terrible sunburn. What caused Becky's sunburn? | show 🗑
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| Boom! Boom! Boom! The car passed Steve's house and the blaring music from the car's radio rattled the windows. How would a scientist explain this to Steve? | show 🗑
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