Which color of light has the shortest wavelength?

If a wave has a high frequency, what can be said about its wavelength?

Describe how a prism creates a rainbow from white light.

Which of the following materials is most likely to absorb light?

Explain why violet light refracts more than red light when passing through a prism.

A wave travels through a medium and is partially absorbed. What happens to the energy of the wave?

Which of the following best describes the relationship between amplitude and energy in a wave?

Develop a model to explain how light is transmitted through a transparent material.

Which of the following is an example of light being reflected?

How does the frequency of a wave affect its energy?

Strategize a method to measure the wavelength of light using a diffraction grating.

What is the effect of a material's density on the transmission of light through it?

When light moves from water to air, it bends away from the normal. This is an example of:

If you look at a pencil in a glass of water, it looks bent at the surface of the water. What causes this?

What property of light is affected when you adjust its amplitude?

What property of light is affected when you adjust its frequency?

If the image to the left represents one second of time, what would the approximate frequency of the waves shown be?

What do you call the vertical distance from a wave's resting position to either a crest or a trough?

What do you call the horizontal distance between two consecutive points in a wave (for example, crest to crest)?

What do you call the number of waves passing a fixed point per second?

What must you do to change wave properties such as frequency or amplitude?

Of the waves shown in the image, which set has the most energy? (assume that all four sets represent 1 second)

Of the waves shown in the image, which set or sets have the smallest amplitude? (assume that all four sets represent 1 second)

Of the waves shown in the image, which set or sets have the greatest amplitude? (assume that all four sets represent 1 second)

Of the waves shown in the image, which set or sets have the greatest frequency? (assume that all four sets represent 1 second)

Of the waves shown in the image, which set or sets have the lowest frequency? (assume that all four sets represent 1 second)

If the different wave sets represent different sounds, which set would be most similar to A in terms of pitch? (assume all sets represent 1 second)

If the different wave sets represent different sounds, which set would be most similar to A in terms of volume? (assume all sets represent 1 second)

If the different wave sets represent different sounds, which set would be most unlike A? (assume all sets represent 1 second)

All waves carry ________ as they travel from one place to another.

What part is represented by the blue lines?

What property of the wave is represented by the letter "A"?

The illustration shows three different waves traveling through the same medium. Assuming all three waves represent one second and based on what you observe, which of the statements is most likely correct?

Of the two wave examples shown in the image, which one is sound an example of?

Of the two wave examples shown in the image, which one is light an example of?

If you want to make a sound louder, what do you need to change?

If you want to change the pitch of a sound, what do you need to change?

Sound waves travel as _________ waves.

Sound is made when a source of energy forces the matter to _________.

A back-and-forth motion causing particles to move close together generates a _______.

A rarefaction is generated when particles move ______.

Sound waves cannot travel through which of these ____.

In which of these types of media will sound travel faster?

The elasticity of a substance describes how fast or slow its particle bounce back-and-forth as ______ move through the object.

Which physical property of a medium is defined by how close the particles of the substance are to each other?

Which temperature causes sound to travel more slowly?

Which of these is not a property of a sound wave?

The amount of energy a sound wave carries per sound through a unit of area is its ____.

The ____ of a wave increases with increased energy.

Loudness of waves is measure in ______

Frequency of waves is measure in _____.

High frequency sounds have ______ pitch.

Which is an example of the doppler effect?

One important characteristic of sound waves is that they are ___________________ waves.

Sound waves must travel through ___________________.

If there is a loud noise in your house, the sound travels through

What is the source of a sound wave?

This diagram shows two different ways to represent longitudinal waves.

Which letter corresponds to rarefaction (sound equivalent of a trough) in the waves?

Two sound waves of different frequencies interfere and produce a resulting waveform shown with four points (W, X, Y, and Z) marked on the new wave.

At which point will the sound be the loudest ?

The students in the diagram are communicating with the cans and string.

Which is the most likely explanation of how the students can hear and communicate using the objects?

The diagram shows a research vessel using sonar to map the ocean floor.

Upon which basic behavior of sound waves does this technology depend?