Name that Wave
What part is that?
Hands off my property
waves interacting
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 bouncing back of an object or a wave when it hits a surface through which it cannot pass.
What is reflection?
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
The bending of waves as they enter a new medium at an angle.
What is refraction?
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
The interactions between waves as they meet.
What is interference?
300
A difference between sound waves and light waves. 
What are either that sound is longitudinal and light is transverse OR sound travels at a slower speed than light. 
400
A wave that appears to stand in one place, even though it is really two waves interfering as they pass through each other.
What is a standing wave?
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
The interaction between waves that results in a larger wave.
What is  constructive interference?
400
A huge surface wave on the ocean caused by an underwater earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
500
A sound wave.
What is a longitudinal (or mechanical) wave? 
500
A point where a where a wave is not moving (seen as the half-way point of a wave) 
What is an rest position?
500
The frequency of 300 waves that pass a point in one minute (or 60 seconds)?
What is 5 Hz?
500

The interaction between waves that results in a smaller wave.

What is destructive interference?
500
Three things that change about sound waves as an ambulance (the source of sound) drives closer to you (the observer) 
What are the frequency, the wavelength, and the pitch. 
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