Science Chapter 8, 9, 10

Question 1

What do we call the ability to cause change?

Answer 1

Energy

Question 2

What do we call the transfer of thermal energy through electromagnetic waves ?

Answer 2

Radiant Energy

Question 3

What is the process in which energy moves from one object to another without changing forms?

Answer 3

Energy Transfer

Question 4

What is the measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in a material?

Answer 4

Temperature

Question 5

What is another name for stored energy?

Answer 5

Potential Energy

Question 6

What is the transfer of thermal energy due to collisions between particles?

Answer 6

Conduction

Question 7

What is the sum of potential and kinetic energy in a system?

Answer 7

Mechanical Energy

Question 8

What do we call the conversion of one kind of energy into another kind of energy?

Answer 8

Energy transformation

Question 9

What is another name for energy due to motion?

Answer 9

Kinetic Energy

Question 10

What do we call the transfer of thermal energy by the movement of particles from one part of a material to another?

Answer 10

Convection

Question 11

What do we call energy from between the bonds of atoms?

Answer 11

Chemical Energy

Question 12

What kind of disturbance transfers energy without transferring matter?

Answer 12

A Wave

Question 13

What do we call energy applied over a distance?

Answer 13

Work

Question 14

What do we call energy from the nucleus of an atom?

Answer 14

Nuclear Energy

Question 15

What is the top part of a transverse wave called?

Answer 15

The Crest

Question 16

In which part of a longitudinal wave are the particles of the medium closest together?

Answer 16

Compression

Question 17

What kind of wave moves perpendicularly to the disturbance that creates it?

Answer 17

Transverse Wave

Question 18

What occurs when light travels through an object?

Answer 18

Transmission

Question 19

What is the name given to a material though which a wave travels?

Answer 19

A Medium

Question 20

Which kind of waves can travel through matter and space?

Answer 20

Electromagnetic Waves

Question 21

What do we call the bottom part of a transverse wave?

Answer 21

Trough

Question 22

Which kind of waves can only travel through a medium?

Answer 22

Mechanical Wave

Question 23

What do we call it when energy from a wave travels into a material?

Answer 23

Absorption

Question 24

What do we call it when a wave slows down as it goes from one medium to another?

Answer 24

Refraction

Question 25

What do we call it when a wave bounces off of a surface?

Answer 25

Reflection

Question 26

What do we call a surface that forms an image by regular reflection?

Answer 26

A Mirror

Question 27

What do we call a region of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are farthest apart?

Answer 27

Rarefaction

Question 28

Fifteen waves pass a position in five seconds. What is the frequency?

Answer 28

Three Hertz

Question 29

Which kind of wave moves parallel to the disturbance that creates it?

Answer 29

Longitudinal

Question 30

Sound is which kind of wave?

Answer 30

Mechanical/Longitudinal

Question 31

Which part of the eye controls how much light can enter the eye?

Answer 31

The Iris/ Pupil

Question 32

What do we call the lens made of transparent tissue located on the outside of the eye?

Answer 32

The Cornea

Question 33

What do we call the area on the back of the eye containing light sensitive cells?

Answer 33

Retina

Question 34

What is the law of reflection?

Answer 34

The angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection.

Question 35

What happens when you increase the amplitude of the sound wave?

Answer 35

The Sound Gets Louder

Question 36

What do we call the distance between the crest of one wave to the crest of the next?

Answer 36

Wavelength

Question 37

What do we call the number of oscillations a wave makes per second?

Answer 37

Frequency

Question 38

What does the law of conservation of energy state?

Answer 38

Energy is neither created nor destroyed; only transformed from one form to another.

Question 39

What happens when the frequency of a sound wave increases?

Answer 39

The Pitch Increases

Question 40

Glass is an example of what kind of material?

Answer 40

Transparent

Question 41

What is the SI unit for loudness?

Answer 41

Decibel

Question 42

What do we call something we cannot see through?

Answer 42

Opaque