Waves in General
Patterns of energy that travel through matter and carry energy.
What are waves?
The highest part of a transverse wave
What is a crest?
What is the ear?
Types of waves there can be.
What is ocean, sound, light and heat waves?
The distance between crest to crest or trough to trough in a wave
What is a wavelength?
At what speed do electromagnetic waves travel (The fastest speed at which we can measure)?
The speed of light.
The highness or lowness of a sound.
What is pitch?
A wave pattern that has many waves in a given amount of time has _______ frequency
What is high frequency.
What type of waves does the sun give off.
What is heat and light waves?
The number of complete waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time
What is frequency?
How loud or soft a sound is
What is pitch?
A tall wave has a ______ amplitude.
What is high?
The material through which a wave travels.
What is a medium?
The lowest part of a wave.
What is trough?
a reflective sound wave that travels a distance and then bounces off an object and back to your ear.
What is an echo?
An area that you cannot hear sound
A vibration is?
What is a movement back and forth that produces a sound
The distance between the resting point and crest OR the resting point and trough
What is Amplitude?
Direction that waves travel in
what is longitudinal?
An organized pattern of sound.
What is rhythm?
Sound travels faster through ______ than air.
What is water?