Waves, Light, and Sound

In the bathtub,

you are playing with a duck. You plunge your fist into the water next to the duck. The surface of the water...

• lowers.

• stays still.

• has waves moving to the bottom of tub.

• will have waves moving out from where your fist entered the water.

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

How they move and their traveling medium are

• how they measure electromagnetism.

• how they are classified.

• how they cause chemical changes.

• how they measure amplitude, frequency, and wavelength.

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

When Camaron and Elijah were at the beach trying to pull girls, they got bored and counted the number of waves that passed under the dock every 10 seconds. What were they measuring?

• Jayden's ratio of text messages to school work done

• amplitude and speed

• frequency

• wavelength

When Ronterrion can't stop talking, he is sending out a lot of energy. His sound waves must have...

• no energy; no correlation

• high amplitude, low energy; negative correlation

• high amplitude, high energy; positive correlation

• low amplitude, high energy; negative correlation

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

Wave behavior characteristics: bending, angle, passing from medium to medium

• refraction

• absorb

• reflection

• transmission

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

Which color is the hottest?

• black

• silver

• white

• yellow

Sound travels far more quickly than a student sleeping during an exam, but it travels most quickly through...

• cold water

• stainless steel

• cold air

• warm air

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

When you are being pursued by the police for stealing a candy bar from Head's Grocery Store with the blue lights flashing and the sound of the siren is being driven toward you making the pitch increase. The sounds waves are...

• at a higher frequency.

• at the same frequency.

• at a lower frequency.

• at a decreasing frequency.

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

When I see you out of area, your image is inverted onto my retina by...

• my cone cells and rod cells

• my hair cells

• a concave lens

• a convex lens

You know how when you are taking forever in the bathroom because you and your bestie are staring at yourselves in the mirror and Mrs. Droegmiller hollers into the bathroom that it is time to go with her voice bouncing off the walls. Relate the two events.

• reflection

• refraction

• absorbtion

• diffraction

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2