Parts of a Wave
The part of the wave is labeled in blue
What is crest?
The category of waves that require a medium
What are mechanical waves?
These are the lowest frequency waves on the EM spectrum
What are radio waves?
A blue folder looks blue because it is _________ blue light waves.
What is "reflecting?"
The speed of a wave is equal to its frequency times its _________.
What is wavelength?
The part of the wave labeled in green
What is trough?
The category of waves that do not require a medium
What are electromagnetic waves?
These are the highest frequency waves on the EM spectrum
What are gamma rays?
A black rubber tire looks black because it is _____________ all colors of light.
What is "absorbing?"
The SI unit for frequency
What is hertz (Hz)?
The part of the wave labeled in red
What is node?
The shape of wave that a sound wave or a seismic wave would create, where air particles or earth particles are being pressed together in the direction the energy is travelling
What is a compression wave?
These are the light waves that have frequencies just lower than the red wavelengths we can see.
What are infrared waves?
According to the law of reflection, the angle of incidence will equal this.
What is the angle of reflection?
When light waves change direction as they pass through a transparent medium
What is "refraction?"
The part of the wave labeled in purple
What is wavelength?
The shape of wave that a surface ocean wave makes, in which the peaks of the wave rise perpendicular to the direction the energy is travelling.
What is a transverse wave?
These are the light waves that have frequencies just higher than the violet wavelengths we can see.
What are ultraviolet light waves?
A red filter makes everything look red because it is ___________ all other colors of light.
What is "absorbing?"
The term for when a ray of light is entering a transparent medium at such an angle that it no longer passes through, but only reflects back.
What is "total internal reflection?"
The part of the wave labeled in yellow
What is amplitude?
The reason why sound waves do not propagate in space
What is the lack of air particles in space?
As the frequency of a light wave gets higher, its wavelength gets _________.
What is "shorter?"
The human eye can see between 380 nm and ____ nm wavelengths of light.
What is 700?
Where the energy of the waves that hit Mavericks originate
In the northern Pacific ocean