Physical Science Final Review

In which type of wave does the medium oscillate in the same direction as the wave motion?

What scientist is best-known for his attempt to reproduce chemical evolution in the lab?

What type of material allows current to flow through it with no resistance?

What are regions of concentrated magnetism?

What is a vector quantity that measures the displacement of an object per unit time?

What is the name for a material that has only one unpaired electron per atom and is weakly attracted to magnets?

What is NOT a part of a simple electric circuit?

What instrument family requires the player to vibrate his lips against the mouthpiece?

What states that the total charge is the same before and after an interaction?

What is the force with which an electric current flows?

What is any change in speed, direction, or both?

Who was the "bulldog" for Creation science?

What principle states that an organism better able to survive than another type of organism will become predominant?

What is the SI unit of force?

What device uses electromagnetic induction to produce electricity?

What type of device produces static electricity?

What type of circuit contains a gap that electrons cannot cross?

What is the SI unit of current?

What is a random sound with no intended pattern?

What states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction?

What is the speed of light in a vacuum?

What is the SI unit of frequency?

What is the SI unit of electric charge?

What type of sound has pitches below the audible range?

What is the change in a wave's direction when passing from one substance to another?

What type of charge transfer occurs when a charged object is brought near, but not touching, a neutral object?

What is a periodic back-and-forth motion that transmits energy?

What is the change in the course of a wave as a result of a collision with an object?

What is the strength of a sound wave?

What is the spreading out of a wave after passing through a narrow opening?

What is the most important principle that shows there had to be an act of creation?

What color is NOT a subtractive primary color?

What type of circuit has the loads arranged one after another?

Who invented the triode?

What type of force causes an object to travel in a curved path rather than a straight line?

What type of light contains waves that are all aligned in the same direction?

What is the transfer of an electric charge by direct contact?

What is a sound heard distinctly after being reflected from an object?

What is the "brain" of the computer?

What is a random change in the DNA that occurs when a gene is damaged or copied incorrectly?

How many bytes in a kilobyte?

What theory states that light has both a wave nature and a particle nature?

What is the SI unit of resistance?

What is the idea that nothing is knowable outside the natural world?

What states that the true laws of nature always hold true no matter when they are applied?

Who wrote Principles of Geology and introduced uniformitarianism?

What is the interactions between electrons and other charge particles?

What is the belief that natural processes have always occurred in the same manner and at the same rate that they do now?

What type of device is used to store a static electric charge?

What type of simple machine consists of a rigid bar or beam resting on a pivot?

What is a point of infinite density and no volume?

What is the mutual reinforcement or cancellation that occurs when two or more waves meet?

What states that opposite charges attract each other but like charges repel each other?

What type of mathematical quantity has only a magnitude?

What occurs when light is refracted, reflected, and refracted again in a droplet of water?

What type of magnetic material has several unpaired electrons per atom?

What does ex nihilo mean?

What is the most important device for converting electricity into motion?

What unit is used to measure the loudness of sound?

What is a simple device that detects small electric charges?

What is the most important cause of magnetism?

What is the temperature at which a ferromagnetic material's domains disappear?

What is a "circular lever"?

Who wrote the first computer program?

What term describes an object with no overall electric charge?

What charge is a result of an excess of electrons?

What is the name of the circuit board that connects all the computer's components?

What is a versatile, computer-directed machine that can be programmed to do different tasks?

What is the SI unit of power?

What is the rate of doing work?

What idea says all matter and energy were compressed into a singularity that suddenly expanded?

What is the rate of charge flow?

What system uses the Internet to access remote computer resources that store, process, and manage user's data?

What theory combines Darwinism and genetics?

What states that living things must have a certain number of parts working together to live?

What is the most powerful form of electromagnetic radiation?

What is the distance traveled by an object per unit of time?

What device produces a strong magnetic field when electricity passes through it?

What is sound that can be heard?

What type of material hinders the flow of current?

What is the effect of frequency on the way the human ear perceives sound?

What is the part of the lightning bolt that is the initial stream of electrons moving from the cloud to the ground?

What type of lamp produces light by heating a filament to a very high temperature?

What states that gravity is the result of the geometry of space itself?

What is the maximum distance that particles can be displaced by a wave?