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Obtain and Communicate Information

Vocabulary

Use these words when explaining information transfer by waves.

echo echolocation coding
binary coding

Information Transfer
Watch Information Transfer on ways we send and receive
information. Answer the question after you have finished watching.

1. How would you explain information transfer in your own words?

Reflection of Sound
Read page 159 in the Science Handbook. Answer the following
questions after you have finished reading.

2. What causes an echo?

3. Explain how echolocation and sonar are similar.

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Echolocation in Animals
Explore the digital interactive Echolocation in Animals on how
different animals use sound to find food and to navigate. Answer
the question after you have finished.

4. Explain how echolocation works using numbered steps.

How Does Technology Help Us Transfer Information?

Read How Does Technology Help Us Transfer Information?
on ways humans have developed to communicate information.
Answer the following questions after you have finished reading.

5. How did humans transfer information before the invention of

the telephone?

6. Compare and contrast how cell phones and satellites

transfer information.

7. How are patterns used in communication technologies?

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