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100

The highest point on a transverse wave. 

What is the crest?

100

Sound travels fastest through ...

What is a solid?

100

A material that transmits most of the light that strikes it. 

What is transparent? 

100

This wave is faster.

What is a light wave? 

100
The ability to do work

What is energy?

200

What is the lowest point on a transverse wave.

What is a trough?

200

How loud or soft a sound is ...

What is amplitude? 

200

This object reflects or absorbs all the light that strikes it. 

What is opaque?

200

This absorbs all visible light.

What is black?

200

A material through which a mechanical wave travels.

What is a medium?

300

The distance between adjacent wave compressions. 

What is a wavelength? 

300

Sound travels fastest through this form of matter...

Solids

300

The bending of a wave as it passes between two transparent substances.

What is refract?

300

This is an energy caused by vibrations. 

What is sound? 

300

A kind of wave that does not need a medium to travel through

What is electromagnetic? 

400

The number of wavelengths that pass a given point in one second. 

What is frequency?

400

How high or low a sound is ...

What is pitch?

400

Light bouncing back from an object.

What is reflection?

400

This wave does not require a medium?

What is light?

400

Earthquakes produce this wave through Earth's layers. 

What is seismic?

500

The distance between the rest position and a crest or a trough of a wave. 

What is amplitude? 

500

Sound is this type of wave. 

What is a longitudinal wave? 

500

The energy that we can see. 

What is visible light?

500

The bouncing back of wave

What is reflection?

500

In a longitudinal wave you have compressions and ...

What is rarefaction? 

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