Anatomy of a Wave
Vacuum it up!
Frequency, wavelength, & amplitude
Light, BEHAVE!
Wave Applications
100
The highest point of a transverse wave.
What is Crest?
100
The matter that a mechanical wave manipulates.
What is Medium?
100
The amount of energy found in a transverse wave can be measured by this.
What is Amplitude?
100
When light strikes an object and bounces off of it.
What is Reflection?
100
This is the type of wave on the EM spectrum with the highest frequency.
What is Gamma Rays?
200
The part of a compression wave where energy is highest and matter is compressed.
What is Compression?
200
This type of wave can travel through empty space, as well as a medium.
What is Electromagnetic/ Transverse / Light?
200
The number of waves that pass a given point in one second.
What is Frequency?
200
When a wave strikes an object and goes into it.
What is Absorption?
200
This type of wave on the EM spectrum with the greatest wavelength.
What is Radio waves?
300
The lowest point of a transverse wave.
What is Trough?
300
This is a space devoid of matter.
What is Vacuum?
300
Which wave has the highest frequency
What is Wave B / Bottom wave?
300
This color absorbs all visible light of the visible light spectrum.
What is Black?
300
This is the type of wavelength that WiFi travels as.
What is Radio waves?
400
This is measured from crest to crest or from trough to trough of a transverse wave.
What is Wavelength?
400
Because they cannot travel through a vacuum, sound waves can be classified as this type of wave.
What is Mechanical?
400
Wave A has a wavelength of 2.5 cm. Wave B has a wavelength of 3 cm.
This wave has the higher frequency.
What is Wave A?
400
This is when a wave travels through a medium and into a new medium.
What is Transmission?
400
DOULBE JEOPARDY: This question is worth double the points.
These are two types of waves on the electromagnetic spectrum used for cancer treatment due to their ability to penetrate tissue to destroy cancer cells.
What is X-rays & Gamma Rays?
500
The region of a compression wave where matter is most spread out.
What is Rarefaction?
500
In transverse waves, matter moves in this direction compared to the direction of the wave.
What is Perpendicular?
500
The relationship between wavelength and frequency is that as one ____________ the other ___________.
What is Increases; Decreases (or vice versa)?
500
Bending of waves caused by a change in speed as it moves from one medium through another of a different type.
What is Refraction?
500
DOUBLE Jeopardy: This question is worth double the points.
This is the visible light spectrum in order from least to greater frequency.
(Hint: Rainbow)
What is Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet (ROYGBIV)?