Wave Behavior Quiz

Luna, Sophia, and Charlotte are playing with a ball in the park. What happens to the waves of light when they bounce off the ball that the girls are playing with?

• Transmission

• Reflection

• Diffraction

• Refraction

Aria, Benjamin, and Arjun are in a large, empty room. Aria claps her hands and they hear the sound again a moment later. What causes this delay between the original sound and the repeated sound?

• Absorption

• Refraction

• Transmission

• Reflection

Emma, Luna, and Isla are experimenting with different objects to understand how light reflects. They are testing hard, rough, smooth, and soft surfaces. According to their observations, which type of surfaces reflect light in a regular way?

• Hard surfaces

• Rough surfaces

• Smooth surfaces

• Soft surfaces

Luna, Jackson, and Rohan are observing a science experiment. They notice that when sound waves from a speaker keep traveling in the same direction through a wall, what happens?

• Reflection

• Transmission

• Refraction

• Diffraction

Evelyn, Daniel, and William were doing a science experiment. They noticed that the color of their experiment's object changed depending on the light. What causes the color of their object to depend on which wavelengths of light it absorbs and which it reflects?

• Transmission and scattering

• Absorption and reflection

• Refraction and diffraction

• Reflection and transmission

David, Scarlett, and Aiden moved into the apartment upstairs. They carpeted their floors, added curtains, and filled the room with furniture. Why did these changes make them much quieter to the neighbors downstairs?

• Refraction

• Absorption

• Transmission

• Reflection

Harper, Ava, and Luna are at the beach observing the ocean waves. They notice that the waves change direction when they hit the shoreline. What causes this phenomenon?

• Diffraction

• Reflection

• Transmission

• Refraction

Charlotte, Olivia, and Grace were at the beach and noticed that when the ocean waves hit a gap between two rocks, they spread back out after passing through the gap. What is this phenomenon called?

• Diffraction

• Reflection

• Transmission

• Refraction

Grace, Benjamin, and Anika were having a picnic on a clear day. They noticed the sky appeared blue and started discussing why this happens. Benjamin suggested it's a phenomenon where waves spread out in multiple directions. What is this phenomenon called?

• Reflection

• Diffraction

• Transmission

• Scattering

Lily, Anika, and Aria were having a picnic on a clear day. They started wondering why the sky appears blue. What causes the shorter blue wavelengths to scatter out in all directions, making the sky appear blue?

• Ozone layer

• Clouds in the sky

• Water vapor

• Molecules in the atmosphere