A disturbance that transfers energy from place to place.
What is a wave?
100
The type of wave that moves the medium at right angles to the direction in which the wave travels.
What are transverse waves?
100
The four basic properties of waves.
What are speed, amplitude, wavelength, and frequency?
100
Caused when a wave enters a new medium at an angle and the two sides of the wave are traveling at different speeds.
What is refraction?
100
The three types of seismic waves
What are S Waves, P waves, and surface waves?
200
The ability to do work.
What is energy?
200
The high point of a transverse waves.
What is the crest?
200
The property of a wave that is directly related to energy. It is defined as the maximum distance that particles of the medium carrying the wave move away from their rest position.
What is amplitude?
200
Cause when a wave or an object hit a surface that it can not go through and bounces back.
What is reflection?
200
Transverse seismic waves.
What are S waves?
300
The material through which a wave moves through.
What is a medium?
300
The low point of a transverse wave.
What is a trough?
300
The number of complete waves that pass through a given point in a certain amount of time.
What is frequency?
300
When an incoming wave and a reflected wave just the right frequencies that it causes a combined wave that appears to be still.
What are standing waves?
300
Longitudinal seismic waves
What are P waves?
400
Waves that require a medium to move through.
What are mechanical waves?
400
The type of wave that moves it's medium parallel to the direction in which the waves travel.
What is a longitudinal wave?
400
The distance between two corresponding parts of a wave, measured either from crest to crest or trough to trough in transverse waves, or from compression to compression in longitudinal waves.
What is wavelength?
400
The interaction between waves, it can either be constructive or destructive.
What is interference?
400
Tsunamis are caused by this type of wave, a combination of longitudinal and transverse waves.
What are surface waves?
500
Waves that can travel with or without a medium.
What are electromagnetic waves?
500
The two parts of a longitudinal wave.
What are compressions and rarefactions?
500
The distance a wave travels in a given length of time.
Wavelength X Frequency =
What is speed?
500
Caused when a wave moves around a barrier and spreads out or passes through an opening in a barrier.