Download Questions 1A Define wave. What kind of wave requires a medium

Questions 1A
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Define wave.
What kind of wave requires a medium?
How do we calculate wave speed?
What kind of wave is a sound wave?
Questions 1B
1. Give 3 examples of media.
2. What kinds of waves do NOT require a
medium?
3. What is the relationship between
frequency and wavelength?
4. How does sound travel?
Questions 2 A
1. What 2 things can waves travel through?
2. What do we call waves that are
produced by a combination of
longitudinal and transverse waves?
3. Differentiate between reflection,
refraction, and diffraction.
4. In what direction do sound waves
travel?
Questions 2B
1. What does a wave carry?
2. What is amplitude? Why is it significant?
Questions 3A
1. What is frequency? Why is it significant?
2. What is a standing wave? Give an example.
3. Explain resonance. Give an example.
4. What are the 3 sections of the ear?
Questions 3B
1. What is pitch? How is it related to frequency?
2. Define loudness. What is the unit used to
measure loudness?
3. What is an electronic echo called?
4. What is responsible for transmitting sound
electrically to the brain?
Questions 4A
1. What do we call sounds that have a frequency
too high to hear?
2. How are amplitude and frequency related?
3. What do we call the process of using sound to
locate an object?
4. Predict what may have happened if a person
has lost their hearing (answers will vary).
Questions 4B
1. What are the 3 kinds of instruments?
3. What is interference? Explain the two
types of interference.
2. What happens when a jet breaks the sound
barrier?
4. Define a medium.
3. What is used to change a longitudinal sound
wave into a transverse wave?
4. What medical procedure allows us to “see”
inside the body without surgery?
Questions 5A
Questions 7A
1. Describe the Doppler Effect.
1. What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
2. What is an echo?
2. What are the three things light can do?
3. Define a sonic boom.
4. Define noise.
Questions 5B
1. What surface reflects an echo the best?
2. What are the 2 kinds of standing waves?
3. What are the three primary pigment colors?
4. List the waves of the electromagnetic spectrum
in order from longest to shortest.
Questions 7B
1. What are the 3 kinds of objects and how do
they relate to light?
3. Define sound quality.
2. When the three primary pigments are added
together in equal amounts, what is the result?
4. Compare absorption to scattering.
3. Differentiate between the 2 kinds of reflection.
Questions 6A
1. What are the three primary colors of
light?
2. Define noise.
3. What is refraction? Give an example.
4. When the 3 primary colors of light are
combined in equal amounts, what do
they create?
Questions 6B
1. What is an electromagnetic wave?
2. Define diffraction.
3. What is pigment?
4. Define radiation.
4. What are the 3 kinds of objects and how do
they relate to light?
Question 8A
1. When the three primary pigments are added
together in equal amounts, what is the result?
2. When we look at an object, what color do we
see?
3. Compare the primary colors of light to the
primary colors of pigments.
4. What happens to the other colors?
Questions 8B
1. Draw a convex and concave lens/mirror.
2. What is a plane mirror?
3. What are the properties of a magnet?
4. How does a compass work?
Questions 9A
Questions 11A
1. Which type of lens magnifies?
1. What can electrical current flow through?
2. What are the opposite ends of a magnet called?
2. Define an electric circuit.
3. What happens when you break a magnet?
3. What are the characteristics of a
superconductor?
4. Which type of lens make images appear fine and
crisp?
Questions 9B
1. What is magnetic force?
4. What function does a transformer serve?
Questions 11B
1. What are the 3 components to a circuit?
2. Give an example of a magnetic light show.
3. What is the function of the following parts of the
eye: retina, pupil, lens, optic nerve, cornea, iris?
4. Explain how a magnetic field works.
Questions 10A
1. Name 3 ways light affects your life (answers will
vary).
2. How does an electric motor function?
3. What is ferromagnetic material and how
is it used in electromagnets?
4. Compare a conductor to an insulator and
give an example of each.
Questions 12A
2. How can a magnet lose its’ magnetic
alignment? (How can you destroy a magnetic
field?)
1. What is a galvanometer?
3. What is generated when charges flow through
a wire?
3. What happens when you flip a switch?
4. How can you create a magnet?
Questions 10B
1. How is the Earth like a magnet?
2. What is the unit used to express the amount of
charge that flows through a wire?
3. Explain the relationship between north and south
2. How does an electromagnet function?
4. What is an armature?
Questions 12B
1. What is resistance?
2. What is the function of a commutator?
3. What is the coil called that is used in an
electromagnet?
poles on a magnet.
4. What does an electric current produce? What
happens if the current reverses?
4. What object is used to help control
resistance?
Questions 13A
Questions 15A
1. Give an example of how resistance is very
useful in our lives.
1. In relation to electricity, what does it mean to
be grounded?
2. How does an electric generator work?
2. How does resistance factor in with insulators
and conductors?
3. How can you increase or decrease the
power/strength of an electromagnet?
4. Compare a series and a parallel circuit. Use
drawings if necessary.
Questions 13B
1. Give an example of an electromagnet.
2. What does the law of electric charges state?
3. What is voltage and how it related to energy?
4. Define electric power. What unit is used to
express electric power?
Questions 14A
1. How are an electric force and an electric field
related?
2. What unit is used to express voltage?
3. One kilowatt (kW) equals how many watts?
4. Describe 3 ways to charge an object. Give
examples.
Questions 14B
1. What kind of device can detect a charge?
2. Why do batteries vary in voltage?
3. Give examples of series and parallel circuits.
4. Explain static electricity and electric discharge.
3. What is a fuse?
4. Compare AC to DC.
Questions 15B
1. If you wanted maximum voltage what kind of
wire would you want? Does temperature play a
part?
2. How are circuit breakers used in our homes?
3. What does Ohm’s Law state?
4. What unit to we use to measure resistance?