Name that Wave
What part is that?
Hands off my property
miscellaneous
this and that
100
It can't fix a car, but this does requires a medium through which to travel.
What is a mechanical wave?
100
This is the highest part of a transverse wave, not toothpaste.
What is a crest?
100
The maximum distance the particles of a medium move away from their rest positions as a wave passes through the medium.
What is amplitude?
100

The ability to do work

What is energy?

100
The material (not too big, and not too small) through which a wave travels.
What is a medium?
200
A wave that moves the medium in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the wave travels.
What is a transverse wave?
200
The lowest part of a transverse wave.
What is a trough?
200
The distance between two corresponding parts of a wave.
What is wavelength?
200

Includes waves such as water waves, music from a guitar string, a flag waving in the wind

What is a mechanical wave?

200
A disturbance that transfers energy from place to place.
What is a wave?
300
A wave that moves the medium in a direction parallel to the direction in which the wave travels.
What is a longitudinal wave?
300
The part of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are close together.
What is a compression?
300
The number of complete waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time.
What is frequency?
300

Includes getting x-rays at the doctor, streetlights shining at night, waves that heat your food in a microwave

What is an electromagnetic wave?

300

This is the medium in which sound waves travel the slowest

What is gas?

400

Dividing wavelength by period

What is wave speed?

400
The part of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are far apart.
What is a rarefaction?
400
Unit of measurement for frequency.
What is a hertz (Hz)?
400

Waves produced by the tectonic plates beneath earth's surface

What are seismic waves?

400

A huge surface wave on the ocean caused by an underwater earthquake.

What is a tsunami?

500

Wavelength in a transverse wave can be measured as crest to crest or __________

What trough to trough?

500

The maximum distance that the particles of a medium move away from their resting position.

What is amplitude?

500
The frequency of 300 waves that pass a point in one minute?
What is 5 Hz?
500

Electromagnetic waves do not need a medium through which to travel. Instead they travel as disturbances in ________

What are electric and magnetic fields?

500

These are the two factors that decrease the amount of energy carried by a mechanical wave.

What are the medium in which it travels and the spreading of the wavefront over a larger area

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