1. Science Sprint #9 Sound and Light
The _____ of a sound is the number of vibrations in a given time.
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Sound is a form of energy produced by:
An object vibrating faster will have a higher frequency and a higher _____.
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How is sound transmitted (how does it travel)?
What is the distance between two compressions or two rarefactions?
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What kind of matter does sound travel through fastest?
What is the top of a wave called?
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2. (because the particles are
frequency
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pitch
Vibrating matter
high frequency/pitch
low frequency/pitch
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wavelength
in waves
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crest
solids
(because the particles are
closest together)
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3. What is the bottom of a wave called?
Which travels faster, sound or light?
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Blowing through a straw will produce a sound. Which straw will make the highest pitch sound?
Can sound travel through empty space?
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What would be useful to locate a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean?
A high frequency/pitch sound can break glass if the glass resonates with the sound. How does this happen?
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Name some objects that emit light waves.
How do musical instruments produce sound? What are the 4 basic classifications of instruments?
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4. through a solid, liquid, or gas because it is transmitted
trough
light
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No, sound must travel
through a solid, liquid, or gas
because it is transmitted
through vibrating particles.
The shortest straw
makes the highest sound
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the sound vibrates the glass
at the same high frequency;
when the glass particles
vibrate very fast, they break
sonar
(SOund Navigation And Ranging)
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They vibrate; percussion, stringed, wind, and electronic
fire, sun, light bulb
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5. What is the humanly visible form of electromagnetic radiation?
What type of object can some light pass through?
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How does light travel?
What type of object does no light pass through?
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What does light travel through fastest?
If light bounces off an object, it is _____.
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What type of object can light pass through completely?
If light is bent through an object, it is _____.
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6. translucent light opaque in waves and rays (straight lines) reflected
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opaque
in waves and
rays (straight lines)
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reflected
vacuum (empty space)
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refracted
transparent
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7. An object’s color is determined by the color of light it _____.
What tool can be used to refract white light and split it into its colors?
An object’s color is determined by the color of light it _____.
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What are the six colors of light, starting with the longest wavelength?
Name some objects that are translucent.
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What is amplitude and what is it associated with?
Name some objects that are transparent.
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Why do we have a shadow?
Name some objects that are opaque.
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8. red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo violet
reflects
prism
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frosted glass, velum,
tissue paper
red, orange, yellow, green,
blue, indigo violet
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The amount of energy between the crest and trough; it’s associated with intensity and volume
glass, transparency,
sheet protector
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wood, brick, book
We are opaque; light cannot
pass through us.
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9. Unlike sound, light waves travel in _______.
Does light need a medium through which to travel?
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What happens when white light is shone through a prism?
The entire range of electromagnetic radiation (light) is called the:
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What is frequency?
What do we see as visible light?
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Light travels in straight paths until it hits an object, where:
Why are black and white not considered colors on the visible spectrum?
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10. No; that’s why we can see light from the sun
Straight paths called rays
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The prism refracts (bends) the white light separating it into the colors of the visible spectrum.
Electromagnetic spectrum
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The number of waves passing a given point every second; greater the frequency=greater the amount of energy
The colors of the rainbow
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It bounces off (reflected) is bent (refracted) passes through the object (transmitted)
Or absorbed as heat
Black is a total absence of reflected light and white is a reflection of all visible light together
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