Vocabulary
Types of Waves
100

This is the length of a wave.

What is wavelength?

100

This is a wave that moves up and down.

What is a transverse wave?

200

This is a disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another

What is a wave?
200

This wave moves back and forth.

What is a longitudinal wave?

300
This is the material that a wave travels through.

What is a medium?

300

This wave requires a medium to travel through.

What is a mechanical wave?
400

This is a unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second. It expresses frequency.

What is a hertz?

400

This wave is a disturbance in electric and magnetic fields.

What is an electromagnetic wave?

500

This is a measure of how far the particles in the medium move up and down or back and forth.

What is amplitude?

500

This wave can travel in a vacuum.

What is an electromagnetic wave?

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