Waves
Sound
Light
Miscellaneous
Waves pt. 2
100
amplitude, frequency, and wavelength.
What are the characteristics of waves?
100
Sound is most elastic in ______.
What is silver?
100
waves that can not be seen, but felt as heat.
What are infrared waves?
100
_______ and elasticity of a medium affect the speed of waves traveling through it.
What is density?
100
Amplitude is related to wave ______.
What is energy?
200
The highest point of a transverse wave.
What is the crest of a wave?
200
Sound frequency is measured in _____.
What are hertz?
200
The speed of light in kilometers per second.
What is 300,000?
200
These are electromagnetic waves with the lowest wavelength and frequency.
What is radio?
200
When the particles of a longitudinal wave are close together.
What is a compression?
300
Where a wave starts.
What is the point of origin?
300
True or false: Sound waves are transverse waves.
What is false?
300
True or false: Violet waves are visible.
What is true?
300
These waves can travel through a vacuum.
What is electromagnetic?
300
This type of wave requires a medium to travel.
What is mechanical wave?
400
The interaction between 2 waves.
What is interference?
400
You see lighting before you hear thunder because light energy is ______ than sound energy.
What is faster(quicker, etc...)?
400
_____ rays have the highest frequency.
What is gamma?
400
This detects objects under water and measures depths of water.
What is sonar?
400
The lowest point on a transverse wave.
What is the trough of a wave?
500
The bending of waves around a barrier that results in new waves.
What is diffraction?
500
The speed of sound depends on the medium through which it is _________.
What is traveling?
500
These rays are responsible for sunburns.
What is ultraviolet?
500
The change in frequency of a wave as its source moves in relation of an observer.
What is Doppler Effect?
500
When the particles of a longitudinal wave are far apart.
What is a rarefaction?
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