1. Science Jeopardy
Types of Waves
Vocabulary
Properties of Waves
Interactions of Waves
Properties of Sound
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3. A-100 ANSWER: mechanical waves
QUESTION: What are waves that require a medium to travel through?

4. A-200 ANSWER: transverse and longitudinal
QUESTION: What are the two kinds of mechanical waves?

5. A-300 ANSWER: longitudinal waves
QUESTION: What kind of wave does sound travel as?

6. A-400 ANSWER: Electromagnetic waves
QUESTION: What are waves that require no medium?

7. A-500 ANSWER: seismic waves
QUESTION: What are waves that are caused by earthquakes?

8. B-100
ANSWER: medium
QUESTION: What is the material that waves travel through?

9. B-200
ANSWER: node
QUESTION: What is the point of zero amplitude on a standing wave?

10. B-300
ANSWER: antinode
QUESTION: What is the point of maximum amplitude on a standing wave?

11. B-400
ANSWER: crest
QUESTION: What is the highest point of a transverse wave?

12. B-500
ANSWER: Photon
QUESTION: What is a packet of light energy?

13. C-100
ANSWER: amplitude
QUESTION: What is the maximum distance medium moves up or down from its rest position

14. C-200
ANSWER: wavelength
QUESTION: What is the distance between two corresponding parts of a wave?

15. C-300
ANSWER: frequency
QUESTION: What is the number of complete waves that pass a point in a certain amount of time?

16. C-400
ANSWER: Hertz
QUESTION: What is the unit for frequency?

17. C-500
ANSWER: Speed
QUESTION: What is how far the wave travels in a given length of time.

18. D-100
ANSWER: reflection
QUESTION: What occurs when awave hits a surface it can’t pass through it bounces back?

19. D-200
ANSWER: Refraction
QUESTION: What is a wave entering a medium at an angle, one side changing speed, causing the wave to bend?

20. D-300 ANSWER: Diffraction
QUESTION: What is a wave moving around a barrier or through an opening, and then spreading out?

21. D-400 ANSWER: Interference
QUESTION: What is the interaction between two waves that meet?

22. D-500 ANSWER: Standing waves
QUESTION: What occurs when the incoming wave and reflected wave have just the right frequency?

23. E-100
ANSWER: pitch
QUESTION: What is the description of how high or low the sounds seems to a person?

24. E-200 ANSWER: Doppler Effect
QUESTION: What explains why a fire truck sounds different as it moves towards you and away from you?

25. E-300
ANSWER: Loudness
QUESTION: What is your perception of the energy of the sound?

26. E-400
ANSWER: elasticity
QUESTION: What is the ability of a material to bouncy back after being disturbed?

27. E-500
ANSWER: Intensity
QUESTION: What is the amount of energy a sound wave carries per second through a unit area?

28. FINAL JEOPARDY
ANSWER:What is the highest and lowest point on a standing wave?
QUESTION: antinode