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Physical Science Vocab

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the energy an object has because of its motion?

a)

kinetic energy

b)

potential energy

c)

velocity

d)

mass

e)

Joule

2.

What is the amount of energy that is stored in an object?

a)

kinetic energy

b)

potential energy

c)

velocity

d)

mass

e)

Joule

3.

What is a unit of measurement of energy?

a)

kinetic Energy

b)

acceleration

c)

velocity

d)

Mass

e)

Joule

4.

What is the a change in the velocity of an object?

a)

kinetic energy

b)

acceleration

c)

Velocity

d)

Mass

e)

Joule

5.

What is the speed and direction of moving objects?

a)

potential energy

b)

acceleration

c)

Velocity

d)

Mass

e)

Joule

6.

What is the amount of matter in an object?

a)

kinetic energy

b)

acceleration

c)

velocity

d)

mass

e)

Joule

7.

What is a force applied to an object over a distance?

a)

kinetic energy

b)

potential energy

c)

velocity

d)

mass

e)

work

8.

Energy cannot be created out of nothing, nor can it be completely destroyed. Energy can only change its form.

a)

kinetic energy

b)

potential energy

c)

Law of Conservation of Energy

d)

work

9.

These are shear waves. They are slower than P-waves. They are the waves you feel after the initial waves. They move rock the way gelatin jiggles in a bowl.

a)

Longitudinal Wave

b)

Matter

c)

Transverse Wave

d)

P-Waves

e)

S-Waves

10.

These are pressure waves. They are most similar to sound glossary term (opens in a new window)waves. They travel as regions of expansion and compression through solid glossary term (opens in a new window)rock and liquid glossary term (opens in a new window)rock (or magma). Like sound waves, they are longitudinal glossary term (opens in a new window) waves.

a)

Longitudinal Wave

b)

Matter

c)

Transverse Wave

d)

P-Waves

e)

S-Waves

11.

What is the material that has mass and takes up some amount of space?

a)

Longitudinal Wave

b)

Matter

c)

Transverse Wave

d)

P-Waves

e)

S-Waves

12.

What is a wave that occurs when the particles of a medium are displaced perpendicularly to the direction of the wave?

a)

Longitudinal Wave

b)

Matter

c)

Transverse Wave

d)

P-Waves

e)

S-Waves

13.

What is a wave that occurs when the particles of a medium move parallel to the direction of the wave?

a)

Longitudinal Wave

b)

Matter

c)

Transverse Wave

d)

P-Waves

e)

S-Waves

14.

What is the number of cycles a wave completes in a period of time?

a)

Frequency

b)

Trough

c)

Crest

d)

Amplitude

e)

Wavelength

15.

What is the lowest point of a wave?

a)

Peak

b)

Trough

c)

Crest

d)

Amplitude

e)

Wavelength

16.

What is the highest point of a wave?

a)

Frequency

b)

Trough

c)

Crest or Peak

d)

Amplitude

e)

Wavelength

17.

What is the distance between one peak and the next on a wave?

a)

Frequency

b)

Trough

c)

Crest or Peak

d)

Amplitude

e)

Wavelength

18.

What is the height or "strength" of a wave?

a)

Frequency

b)

Trough

c)

Crest or Peak

d)

Amplitude

e)

Wavelength

19.

What is the full range of frequencies of electromagnetic waves?

a)

Longitudinal Wave

b)

Matter

c)

Electromagnetic Spectrum

d)

Radiation

e)

S-Waves

20.

What is a general term for electromagnetic energy? (NOT the spectrum)

a)

Longitudinal Wave

b)

Matter

c)

Electromagnetic Spectrum

d)

Radiation

e)

S-Waves

21.

What means to strike a surface and bounce back in the opposite direction?

a)

Reflection

b)

Concave

c)

Convex

d)

Refraction

22.

What means curved inward?

a)

Reflection

b)

Concave

c)

Convex

d)

Refraction

23.

What means curved outward?

a)

Reflection

b)

Concave

c)

Convex

d)

Refraction

24.

What means to bend light as it passes through a material?

a)

Reflection

b)

Concave

c)

Convex

d)

Refraction

25.

What describes materials through which light can travel; materials that can be seen through?

a)

Transparent

b)

Translucent

c)

Opaque

d)

Light Energy

26.

What describes materials that allow some light to travel through them, but not enough to see through the material?

a)

Transparent

b)

Translucent

c)

Opaque

d)

Light Energy

27.

What describes an object that light cannot travel through?

a)

Transparent

b)

Translucent

c)

Opaque

d)

Light Energy

28.

What is a form of energy that animals can see directly; visible electromagnetic radiation

a)

Longitudinal Waves

b)

Electromagnetic Radiation

c)

Reflection

d)

Light Energy