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? Also acceptable: sound waves or water waves.
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
What kind of wave is your wifi?
What is Transverse Wave.
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
What belongs to you but others will use it more than you do?
What is your name.
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
What is harder to catch the faster you run?
What is your breath?
300
This is the medium for a seismic wave.
What is the ground?
400
This kind of wave doesn't require a medium to pass through.
What is an electromagnetic wave? Also acceptable: light wave, radio wave, gamma, infrared, microwave, ultraviolet, or x-ray
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
No matter how smart you are what is the one thing you will always over look?
What is your own nose?
400
A huge surface wave on the ocean caused by an underwater earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
500
This kind of wave has compressions and rarefactions.
What is a longitudinal wave?
500
The point directly between the crest and the trough.
What is the resting point?
500
The frequency of 300 waves that pass a point in 60 seconds?
What is 5 Hz?
500
The more you take the more you leave behind. What am I?
What are footsteps
500
This is the medium for an ocean wave.
What is water?
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