A disturbance that transfers energy through matter or space is called a _____.
A) wave
B) medium
C) vibration
D) compression
What is a wave?
100
What happens to the particles in a medium when sound waves pass through it?
A) The particles break apart.
B) The particles are absorbed.
C) The particles vibrate.
D) The particles turn into energy.
What is C) the particles vibrate?
100
Waves that move the particles of the medium parallel to the direction that the waves are traveling are called _____.
A) longitudinal waves
B) transverse waves
C) electromagnetic waves
D) combination waves
What is A) longitudinal waves?
100
Waves produced when a rock is dropped into a pond are _____.
A) longitudinal waves
B) electromagnetic waves
C) mechanical waves
D) medium waves
What is C) mechanical waves?
100
A wave that goes up and down (like a snake).
a) compressional
b) electromagnetic
c) water
d) transverse
What is a d) transverse wave?
200
Some waves are created when a source of energy or force causes a medium to _____.
A) move forward
B) compress
C) expand
D) vibrate
What is D) vibrate?
200
A wave will travel only as long as it has _____ to carry.
A) energy
B) mass
C) a medium
D) matter
What is A) energy?
200
Water waves, earthquake waves, and sound waves need a medium through which to travel. All of these waves are therefore _____.
A) compressional waves
B) electromagnetic waves
C) mechanical waves
D) longitudinal waves
What is C) mechanical waves?
200
A _____ wave does not require matter be present in order to travel.
A) light
B) sound
C) seismic
D) water
What is A) light?
200
The low point in a transverse wave is called _____.
A) A trough
B) A rarefaction
C) A crest
D) A compression
What is A) a trough?
300
The matter through which a wave travels is called the _____.
A) vibration
B) medium
C) crest
D) trough
What is B) medium?
300
Mechanical waves and electromagnetic waves are similar in that both _____.
A) can bend around objects
B) originate from an energy source
C) always travel as transverse waves
D) are a series of compressions and rarefactions
What is B) originate from an energy source?
300
Which of the following are mechanical waves?
A) light waves
B) microwaves
C) sound waves
D) radio waves
What is C) sound waves?
300
Electromagnetic waves can transfer energy without _____.
A) a crest
B) wavelength
C) a medium
D) disturbances
What is C) a medium?
300
Sound waves require particles to vibrate. Sound waves cannot _____.
A) be heard underwater
B) move through solids
C) transmit through empty space
D) travel around corners
What is C) transmit through empty space
400
What do waves transmit?
A) Air
B) Matter
C) Energy
D) Water
What is C) Energy?
400
Waves are classified according to _____.
A) their size
B) their shape
C) how they move
D) their source
What is C) how they move?
400
Sound waves differ from water waves in that only _____.
A) water waves are mechanical waves
B) sound waves are mechanical waves
C) water waves are compressional waves
D) sound waves are compressional waves
What is D) sound waves are compressional waves?
400
Radio waves, infrared waves, visible light, and X-rays are all forms of energy that travel as _____.
A) electromagnetic waves
B) mechanical waves
C) seismic waves
D) sound waves
What is A) electromagnetic waves?
400
The highest parts of a transverse wave are called _____.
A) crests
B) troughs
C) rarefactions
D) wavelengths
What is A) crests?
500
Each of the following is a medium through which waves can travel EXCEPT _____.
A) air
B) a vacuum
C) solids
D) water
What is B) a vacuum?
500
Sound can travel through each of the following media EXCEPT _____.
A) air
B) liquids
C) solids
D) outer space
What is D) outer space?
500
A student produced a wave using a rope. The wave had alternating high points and low points.
What are the high and low points called?
A) Valleys and hills
B) Rarefactions and compressions
C) Dips and peaks
D) Crests and troughs
What is D) crests and troughs?
500
The region where the medium of the wave is moving apart is the _____ of the wave.
A. crest
B. rarefaction
C. medium
D. wavelength
What is B) rarefaction?
500
If you are making a wave using a rope, what medium is the wave or energy travelling through?
A) The air
B) The door
C) The rope
D) The person