WorksheetsWaves- Light and Sound
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 23mins
Sound is received in your ear through
the vibration of matter such as air, water, or other material
energy waves that can go through empty space
vibrations of space
Which travels faster: light or sound waves?
Sound Waves
They Travel the same
Light waves
The word for when light bends when passing from one medium to another?
Radiation
Refraction
Reflection
Opaque
What type of materials do NOT let light ravel through them?
Transparent
transulcent
opaque
What occurs when light hits and object and bounces off the surface?
Refraction
Reflection
Color
Gamma Ray
Which object MAKES light?
The sun
Mirrors
Eyes
The Moon
A rainbow occurs because of
Reflection
Refraction
Which of the following visible colors has the shortest Wavelength?
Purple
Green
Yellow
Red
Number 1 represents the
Wavelength (corresponds to rate/frequency of the wave)
Amplitude (corresponds to energy/volume)
Number 3 represents the
Wavelength (corresponds to rate/frequency of the wave)
Amplitude (corresponds to energy/volume)
The dark parts of the slinky represent
Transverse Waves
Compression waves
Diamonds Sparkle because
Light gets stuck inside the diamond and can't get out
Light bounces off the inside and back out to your eye
They are expensive and rare
They are carbon based and made over millions of years
Which part of your eyes changes shape to make objects focus, just like glasses?
Iris
Lens
Cornea
Optic Nerve
Which part of your eyes changes to allow more or less light in?
Iris
Lens
Cornea
Optic Nerve
Scientists agree that light is an energy wave, or a particle of matter?
Energy wave
Particle of matter
They disagree because light has characteristics of both
Which of the following visible colors has the longest Wavelength?
Purple
Green
Yellow
Red
Echo's happen when
Waves bring so much energy that that they go through the surface
Waves bounce off a material and travel back towards the source
Waves travel so far that they lose all their energy
White light will refract into colors of the rainbow when it interacts with a:
Prism
Block of wood
Mirror
Metal table
A little kid asks you "When I hear someone talking, does that mean little pieces of their voice are hitting my ear? Explain why they are incorrect using the gif. (Well written 1-3 sentences)
