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
What is the lowest point of a wave?
What is the trough?
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 causes sound waves?
What is a vibration?
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 the highest point of the wave called? hint: its the name of a toothpaste...
What is the crest?
300
What is the environment waves occur in?
what is a medium.
400
What type of waves are light waves?
What is electromagnetic 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
What are waves that require a medium?
What are mechanical waves.
400
A huge surface wave on the ocean caused by an underwater earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
500
What will a seismic wave create?
What is an earth quake?
500
What types of waves are sound waves?
What is longitudinal(mechanical) wave
500
What is a disturbance that transfers energy?
What is a wave.
500
What type of waves are light waves?
electromagnetic
500
What is the medium for seismic waves.
What is the earth or dirt?
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