"Focus" Questions

The following questions appear at the beginning of each segment in the television broadcast, The Case of the Mysterious Red Light.

Segment 1

• How does light travel?
• How does the problem board help the tree house detectives?
• What are the four parts of a wave?

Segment 2

• How does light refract and reflect?
• Find examples of translucent, transparent, and opaque.
• Why is the sky blue?

Segment 3

• What does the electromagnetic spectrum contain?
• How are volcanoes different from one another?
• What is the "Ring of Fire?"

Segment 4

• What do researchers do at the NASA CAVE?
• What are two things that can affect how far wind can carry aerosols?
• How does the jet stream help the tree house detectives solve their problem?