Light Waves
Parts of Waves
Types of Waves
Vocabulary
Odds and Ends
100
The longest wavelengths on the electromagnetic spectrum.
What are radio waves.
100
This describes a disturbance that transfers energy fromplace to place.
What is a wave
100
These are waves that require a medium through which to travel
What is a mechanical wave
100
The material through which a wave travels.
What is a medium
100
This is required to make a wave and as a result will cause a medium to vibrate.
What is energy.
200
Waves that are used to destroy bacteria and to make vitamin D.
What are ultraviolet waves.
200
The highest part of a transverse wave.
What is a crest
200
Waves that move in the medium at right angles to the direction in which the waves travel.
What is a transverse wave.
200
The parts of coil that are close together.
What is compression
200
The number of complete waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time.
What is frequency.
300
Waves that are made of electric and magnetic components.
What are light waves.
300
This is the maximum distance that the particles of the medium carrying the wave move away from their rest positions.
What is amplitude.
300
This kind of wave is a longitudinal wave that occurs in earth quakes.
What is P wave or a primary wave.
300
The bending of waves due to a change in speed
What is refraction.
300
Wavelength X Frequency
What is Speed.
400
The colored area of the eye that surrounds the pupil.
What is the iris.
400
These points of maximum amplitude on a standing wave.
What is antinodes.
400
This wave moves the medium parallel to the direction the waves move.
What is a longitudinal wave.
400
A country which recently experienced an 8.8 earthquake.
What is Chile
400
Shaking a coil or a spring up and down creates a __________.
What is transverse wave.
500
Waves with frequency slightly higher than ultraviolet waves.
What are xrays.
500
The parts of the coil that are spread out in a longitudinal wave.
What is a rarefraction.
500
This is a combination of a longitudinal and a transverse wave that travels along the surface of a medium.
What is surface wave.
500
Monitors the waves generated by an earthquake.
What is a seismograph.
500
This states that the angle of incidence equals the angles of reflection.
What is law of reflection.
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