Waves in General
Wave Properties
Wave Behavior
Sound
Wave trivia
100

Patterns of energy that travel through matter and carry energy.

What are waves?

100

The highest part of a transverse wave

What is a crest?

100
What is a reflection and how can it be used to tell the depth of a lake
The bouncing back of a wave when it hits a surface through which it cannot pass. The longer it takes to bounce back, the further away the object is.
100
The part of the body you use to hear sound

What is the ear?

100
What happens to wave length a wave frequency increases?
What is, gets shorter.
200

What are mechanical waves?

The type of waves that needs a medium to transfer energy.

200

The distance between crest to crest or trough to trough in a wave

What is a wavelength?

200

At what speed do electromagnetic waves travel (The fastest speed at which we can measure)?

The speed of light.

200

Unit for measuring loudness of sound

What is a decibel?

200

A wave pattern that has many waves in a given amount of time has _______ frequency

What is high frequency.

300

The line running through the middle of the wave. 

What is the resting position?

300

The number of complete waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time

What is frequency?

300
What has a higher frequency radio waves or gamma waves.
Gamma waves
300

How loud or soft a sound is

What is pitch?

300

A tall wave has a ______ amplitude.

What is high?

400

The material through which a wave travels.

What is a medium?

400

The unit of measurement for frequency

What is Hertz?

400
What is a seismic wave and where does it start?
A seismic wave is caused by an earthquake and starts deep underground.
400

a reflective sound wave that travels a distance and then bounces off an object and back to your ear.

What is an echo?

400

An area that you cannot hear sound

What is space (or a vacuum)
500
Name 4 types of electromagnetic waves?
Possible answers: Radio waves Infrared waves Visible light waves Ultra violet waves X-Rays Gamma Rays
500

The distance between the resting point and crest OR the resting point and trough

What is Amplitude?

500

Generally speaking, mechanical waves move quickest through which medium?

What is a solid.

500

Explain why mechanical waves don't travel forever?

What is, they loose energy to the medium that they travel in.

500

Sound travels faster through ______ than air.

What is water?

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