Types of Waves
The top of a transverse wave
What is the Crest?
What is gamma rays?
Name the type of wave in a sound wave (not sound wave!)
What is logitudinal?
An example of an opaque object
What is anything solid?
Disturbances in matter that transfer energy
What are waves?
The bottom of a transverse wave
What is the trough?
The waves that we can see on the electromagnetic spectrum
What is visible light?
The unit that sounds waves are measured
What is a decibel?
An example of a transparent object?
The distance between the highest crest and the resting position
A wave that appears to stand in place
What is a standing wave?
The waves that have the longest wavelength and lowest frequency.
What are radio waves?
What action is in play when we hear an echo (reflection, refraction, absorption)
What is reflection?
An example of a translucent object
What is wax paper or anything cloudy
Gaps between compressions on a longitudinal wave.
What are Rarefactions?
This wave travels perpendicular to the direction of the wave's motion.
What is a transverse wave?
The color that has the lowest frequency in a rainbow.
What is red?
Which process names what happens when light is transmitted from air to water during the formation of a rainbow (absorption, reflection, refraction, diffraction)
What is Refraction?
The location at which rays parallel to the optical axis reflect and meet
What is the Focal Point?
The number of times a wave repeats in a given amount of time in a transverse wave.
What is Frequency?
A combination of a transverse and longitudinal wave.
What is a Surface Wave?
List the order of waves on the electromagnetic spectrum from highest frequency to lowest frequency.
What is Gamma rays, X-ray, UV light, Visible light, Infrared, Microwaves, Radio waves?
The amount of energy a sound wave carries per second in a given area
What is intensity?
Explain why the sky looks blue
What is only blue light is reflected by the particles in the atmosphere?
The distance between crest to crest in a transverse wave
What is Wavelength?