Finals Flashcards
(9 cards)
Refraction of waves and examples
The pencil in the water- the pencil looks broken even though it is not
Rainbows- Rainbows are the bending of light s from the light to it bending in the water into making all of the colors in the visible light spectrum
Reflection of waves and examples
Echos- they happen when there is a mostly or completely empty room and the sound bounces back
Eclipses (solar and lunar) and causes
Lunar eclipse- the moon passes through the earth’s shadow
Solar eclipse- the moon passes through the sun’s light, blocking it while the moon casts a shadow on the Earth
Moon phases and position in orbit
On pages
Moons rotation and revolution
At the same time
Weather tools
Anometer- wind speed
Barometer- air pressure
Fronts and weather prediction
When they predict what happens and all that
Air currents (winds)
The winds blow really hard and soft in different situations
Human interaction and climate change
Burning fossil fuels causes air pollution because of the carbon dioxide
Deforestation causes climate change because of the carbon dioxide that is released and it bounces and keeps doing that because it can’t get out of the atmosphere