What are Waves?
Properties of Waves
Interactions of Waves
Seismic Waves
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100
A disturbance that transfers energy from place to place.
What is a wave?
100
The maximum distance that the particles of the medium carrying the wave move away from their rest positions.
What is amplitude?
100
When an object or wave hits a surface through which it cannot pass and then bounces back.
What is reflection?
100
The waves produced by earthquakes.
What are seismic waves?
100
Waves that move the medium at right angles to the direction in which the waves travel (like in water).
What are transverse waves?
200
The ability to do work.
What is energy?
200
The distance between two corresponding parts of a wave.
What is wavelength?
200
When a wave enters a new medium at an angle, one side of the wave changes speed before the other side, causing the wave to bend.
What is refraction?
200
Longitudinal seismic waves.
What are P waves?
200
Waves that move the medium parallel to the direction in which the waves travel (like a spring).
What are longitudinal waves?
300
The material through which a wave travels.
What is a medium?
300
The number of complete waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time.
What is frequency?
300
When a wave moves around a barrier or through an opening in a barrier.
What is diffraction?
300
Transverse seismic waves?
What are S waves?
300
An instrument that detects and measures earthquake waves.
What is a seismograph?
400
Waves that require a medium through which to travel.
What are mechanical waves?
400
Wavelength x Frequency
What is speed?
400
The interaction between waves that meet.
What is interference?
400
A combination of a longitudinal wave and a transverse wave that travels along the surface of a medium.
What is a surface wave?
400
The points of zero amplitude on a standing wave.
What are nodes?
500
A repeated back-and-forth or up-and-down motion.
What is a vibration?
500
The unit of measurement for frequency.
What is hertz?
500
An increase in the amplitude of a vibration that occurs when external vibrations match an object's natural frequency.
What is resonance?
500
Huge surface waves on the ocean.
What are tsunamis?
500
The high part of a transverse wave is called a _____, and the low part is called a _____.
What are crest and trough?
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