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 in which the disturbance move at 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

Wavelength

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

Answer 12

Observation

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Hypothesis

Question 14

the end of a scientific investigation, how it turns out

Answer 14

Conclusion

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Experiment

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Problem

Question 17

the answer to a scientific problem or investigation

Answer 17

Solution

Question 18

anything that was alive or was once alive

Answer 18

Biotic Factor

Question 19

nonliving parts of an ecosystem

Answer 19

Abiotic Factor

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Species

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Population

Question 22

all of the different populations living in a particular area

Answer 22

Community

Question 23

the part of an experiment that may change or vary

Answer 23

Variable

Question 24

the thing in an experiment that does not change

Answer 24

Control

Question 25

the interaction between two different species that live closely together

Answer 25

Symbiosis

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Commensalism

Question 27

the interaction between two species where both benefit

Answer 27

Mutualism

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Parasitism

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Biome

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Producer

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Consumer

Question 32

Dasher Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donder, and Blitzen are Santa’s Reindeer. True or False

Answer 32

False

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Absorbtion