Chapter 1 Vocabulary

What is the ability to cause motion or create change?

• Waves

• Energy

• Sound

• Heat

kinetic energy is

• stored energy

• energy in motion

• energy in water

• energy in space

What type of energy is energy in the form of vibrations passing through matter?

• Heat energy

• Sound energy

• Light energy

• Electrical energy

What is frequency?

• How high or low a sound is.

• How loud or how soft a sound is.

• The distance between waves

• The number of waves that pass through a certain point

Pitch is...

• how loud or how soft a sound is

• how high or how low a sound is

Volume is...

• how strong or soft a sound is

• how high or low a sound is

How do you measure the amplitude of a wave?

• You measure the height of the wave

• You measure the distance of a wave

• You measure the volume of a wave

• You measure the bottom of a wave

What do we call it when light bends when it passes into a new medium?

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Absorption

• Reduction

What do we call it when when an object takes in light waves?

• Refraction

• Absorption

• Reflection

• Reduction

What do we call it when light rays bounce off a surface

• Absorption

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Reduction