Semester Final

Question 1

a disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another without requiring matter to move the entire distance.

Answer 1

Wave

Question 2

a substance through which a wave moves

Answer 2

Medium

Question 3

a wave such as a sound or seismic wave that transfers kinetic energy through matter

Answer 3

Mechanical Wave

Question 4

A wave which the disturbance move at a right angles to the direction of the wave.

Answer 4

Transverse Wave

Question 5

a wave in which the disturbance moves in the same direction as the wave.

Answer 5

Longitudinal Wave

Question 6

the highest point in a wave

Answer 6

Crest

Question 7

the lowest point in a wave

Answer 7

Trough

Question 8

the distance from one wave crest to the next wave crest

Answer 8

Wave length

Question 9

the number of waves that pass a fixed point in a given period of time

Answer 9

Frequency

Question 10

the range of all electromagnetic frequencies

Answer 10

Electromagnetic Spectrum

Question 11

the passage of waves through a medium

Answer 11

Transmission

Question 12

the disappearance of wave into a medium. The energy transferred by a wave is converted into another form of energy.

Answer 12

Absorption

Question 13

the act of noting and recording an event, characteristic, or anything detected.

Answer 13

Observation

Question 14

the process of collecting evidence

Answer 14

Investigation

Question 15

a tentative explanation for an observation or phenomenon, an if then statement

Answer 15

Hypothesis

Question 16

the end of a scientific investigation, how it turns out

Answer 16

Conclusion

Question 17

a test, trial, or tentative procedure, an act or operation for the purpose of discovering something unknown

Answer 17

Experiment

Question 18

what you’re are trying to solve in a scientific investigation

Answer 18

Problem

Question 19

the answer to a scientific problem or investigation

Answer 19

Solution

Question 20

anything that was alive or was once alive

Answer 20

Biotic factors

Question 21

Nonliving parts of an ecosystem

Answer 21

Abiotic factors

Question 22

any living organism that is so similar that it can breed and produce offspring that can produce offspring.

Answer 22

Species

Question 23

the number of a particular species living in a particular area.

Answer 23

Population

Question 24

all of the different populations living in a particular area

Answer 24

Community

Question 25

the part of an experiment that may change or vary

Answer 25

Variable

Question 26

the thing in an experiment that does not change

Answer 26

Control

Question 27

the interaction between two different species that live closely together

Answer 27

Symbiosis

Question 28

the interaction between two species in which one benefits and the other is not harmed

Answer 28

Commensalism

Question 29

the interaction between two species where both benefit

Answer 29

Mutualism

Question 30

the interaction between two species where one benefits and the other is harmed

Answer 30

Parasitism

Question 31

the natural environment in which a living thing gets all that it needs to survive.

Answer 31

Biome

Question 32

an organism that makes its own food and does not consume other plants or animals

Answer 32

Producer

Question 33

an organism that eats other living things to get energy, an organism that does not produce its own food.

Answer 33

Consumer

Question 34

*Santa's🎅🏻 reindeer*

Answer 34

Dasher Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, and Blitzen.