Science Concepts Flashcards

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What does the term "oscillate" mean?

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To move or swing back and forth at a regular speed.

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What is a high pressure/low pressure front?

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A boundary separating two different types of air.

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What does it mean to convert something?

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To change in form, character, or function.

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What does it mean to encode information?

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To convert into a coded form.

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What is digital information?

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Discrete, discontinuous representation of information.

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What are sound waves?

Back

Pressure waves with regions of high and low pressure.

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What is a digital signal?

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A signal used to represent data as a sequence of separate values.

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What are radio waves?

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Electromagnetic waves carrying signals at the speed of light.

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What is energy in physics?

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The capacity for doing work.

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What are light waves?

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Waves that can be transmitted, reflected, absorbed, refracted, polarized, diffracted, or scattered.