QUIZ FOR LIGHT

1. What are the building blocks of matter?
(a) atoms
(b) particles
(c) light waves
(d) photons

2. What is light radiated by?
(a) light waves
(b) charged particles
(c) rubbing two sticks together
(d) turning on the light switch

3. What atomic particles gives forth light?
(a) megatrons
(b) neutrons
(c) protons
(d) electrons

4. What color of light do our eyes respond best to?
(a) black
(b) blue
(c) green
(d) yellow

5. What is a nanometer?
(a) unit of measurement for visible light waves
(b) device for measuring nanos
(c) device for measuring the speed of light
(d) house plant

6. How do you get an incandescent light source?
(a) water and electricity combine
(b) dry ice explodes
(c) hot atoms collide with each other
(d) rub two sticks together

7. What is the fingerprint of an atom?
(a) how big the atom is
(b) the spectrum emitted by the atom
(c) how the atom is shaped
(d) the sound waves emitted by the atom

8. What uses photosynthesis?
(a) animals
(b) plants
(c) minerals
(d) computers

9. What are electromagnetic waves?
(a) little force fields that charge particles
(b) waves on the beach
(c) waves at football games
(d) what is given off during photosynthesis

10. What is quantum theory?
(a) the laws of the jungle
(b) the laws of medicine
(c) the laws of atoms
(d) the laws of chemistry

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QUIZ FOR SOUND

1. At what frequencies can we hear sound?
(a) 10 to 20,000 hertz
(b) 15 to 20,000 hertz
(c) 100 to 110,000 hertz
(d) 1 to 5,000 hertz

2. What are the two parts of a sound wave?
(a) radio waves and connections
(b) ratios and conventions
(c) rarefractions and condensations
(d) rollers and crushers

3. What is the major hearing part of our ear?
(a) eardrum
(b) ear violin
(c) ear bass
(d) ear flute

4. What does "amplify" mean?
(a) to make louder
(b) to make softer
(c) to make dryer
(d) to make happier

5. A phonograph does what?
(a) makes new sound
(b) records sound
(c) makes sound deeper
(d) reproduces sound

6. Which of the following is true of bats?
(a) they can see well
(b) they can drive cars
(c) they can hear well
(d) they are purple

7. How loud is thunder?
(a) 100 decibels
(b) 110 decibels
(c) 120 decibels
(d) 130 decibels

8. What is an echo?
(a) repetition of sound
(b) a new sound
(c) a kind of transmitter
(d) another word for "decibel"

9. What is a sound wave?
(a) an ocean wave
(b) someone waving hello
(c) a particle
(d) a vibration of sound moving through the air

10. Which of the following is true about sound?
(a) it does not vibrate surfaces
(b) it can not go through solid objects
(c) the pitch of the sound determines its loudness
(d) sound can not be amplified

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