eQuizShow
Wave Jeopardy
Light
Question: This travels the fastest in the universe
Answer: What is light?
Question: An object that produces light
Answer: What is a luminous object?
Question: The human organ that receives light
Answer: What are eyes?
Question: The percentage of the Sun's energy that is carried by light and infrared waves
Answer: What is 90 percent?
Question: The particles in the air do this to blue wavelengths
Answer: What is scatter?
Sound
Question: Sound is carried by these
Answer: What are waves?
Question: The human organ that receives sound waves
Answer: What are ears?
Question: Sound travels the fastest in this state of matter
Answer: What is a solid?
Question: Sound is measured in this
Answer: What are decibels?
Question: The decibel of a whisper
Answer: What is 15 decibels?
Vocab
Question: A material through which light does not pass through
Answer: What is opaque?
Question: A wave that the sun emits and we try to protect ourselves from
Answer: What are UV waves?
Question: A material that allows almost all light that strikes it to pass through
Answer: What is transparent?
Question: A material that allows most of the light that strikes it to pass through but images may seem blurry
Answer: What is translucent?
Question: The amount of energy that passes through a square meter of space in one second
Answer: What is intensity?
Electromagnetic Spectrum
Question: Visible to the human eye
Answer: What is light?
Question: This color has the longest wavelength
Answer: What is red?
Question: The wave that has the highest intensity
Answer: What are gamma waves?
Question: The color of the light depends on this
Answer: What is the wavelength
Question: The wave with the longest wavelength
Answer: What are radio waves
Wave Measurements
Question: Number of waves that pass by a point in one second
Answer: What is frequency?
Question: The length of a wave
Answer: What is a wavelength?
Question: Maximum distance a wave varies from its rest point
Answer: What is amplitude?
Question: The process in which some sound does not pass through a medium
Answer: What is absorption?
Question: Some of the sound bounces off a medium
Answer: What is reflection?