Waves
Wave Properties
Wave Interactions
Light Waves
Sound Waves
100
What are waves that require a medium through which to travel called?
What are mechanical waves?
100
What is the distance between 2 corresponding parts of a wave called?
What is the wavelength?
100

What occurs when a light ray hits a surface and bounces off?

What is reflection?

100

What wave has the lowest frequency on the electromagnetic spectrum?

What are radio waves?

100
Sound travels through a medium as what kind of wave?
What is a longitudinal wave?
200
What is a wave that moves the medium at right angles to its direction called?
What is a transverse wave?
200
What is the number of waves that pass a given point in a given amount of time?
What is frequency?
200
What is the bending of waves due to a change in speed called?
What is refraction?
200

What wave has the highest frequency on the electromagnetic spectrum?

What are gamma rays?

200
What is a reflected sound wave called?
What is an echo?
300
What is the ability to do work?
What is energy?
300

What is the unit of measurement of frequency?

What is a hertz?

300

What occurs when waves collide and interrupt or cancel each other out?

What is destructive interference?

300

What is the name of the wave in which we are able to see light on the electromagnetic spectrum?

What are visible waves?

300

A back-and-forth motion causing particles to move farther apart generates a _______.  

What is rarefaction?

400
What are the parts of a longitudinal wave where the particlies are pushed together?
What are compressions?
400

What is the maximum distance the particles of the medium move from their resting positions when a wave passes through? 

What is amplitude?

400

What property of light causes light to spread out after being reflected by a bumpy, shiny surface?

What is scattering?

400

What is the name of the object that light can hit and disperse all the colors of the rainbow?

What is a prism?

400

Sound is made when a source of energy forces the matter to __________

What is vibrate?

500
What does the rarefaction in a longitudinal wave correspond to in a transverse wave?
What is a trough?
500

What is the highest point of a wave?

What is a crest?

500

What is the transfer of energy of a wave to the medium it comes into contact with?

What is absorption?

500

What type of wave is a light wave?

What is a transverse wave?

500

A back-and-forth motion causing particles to move close together generates a _______.

What is a compression?

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