Types Of Waves
A medium
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Wave characteristics
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What is a wave ?

What is a disturbance that carries energy through matter/space?

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What’s a medium?

What is the matter through which a wave travels?

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The low points of a transverse wave are ?

What is a trough?

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Amplitude and wavelengths are measurements of what ?

What is distance ?

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Ripples are a type of… 

What is a wave ?

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Water waves are an example of …

What is surface waves ?

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For earthquakes, Earth is the …

What is a medium ?

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What is simply the bouncing back of a wave when it meets a surface or boundary?

What is reflection ?

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What is the measurement of the time it takes for a wave to pass a given?

What is a period ?

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The high points of a transverse wave ?

What is a crest?

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what consists of changing  electric and magnetic fields in space?

What is a electromagnetic wave?

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Waves that require a medium?

What is mechanical waves?

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The number of wavelengths that pass a point in a given time interval is called …

What is the frequency of a wave ?

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What does Mrs.Lathers Teach ?

What is Physical Science?

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How are most waves caused?

What is vibration ?

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Waves in which the motion of the particles is perpendicular to the motion of the wave are called… 

What is transverse waves ?

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Which wave does not require a medium ?

What is electromagnetic waves?

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What is wavelength?

What is The distance between two equivalent parts of a wave?

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The greatest distance that particles are displaced from their normal resting positions ?

What is amplitude ?

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Electromagnetic waves are another example of… 

what is transverse waves ?
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A wave in which the wave motion is parallel to the particle motion

What is longitudinal waves ?

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Most waves travel through a what?

What is a medium?

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The bending of the waves as they pass an edges is called …

What is diffraction ?

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What is equal to wavelength divided by period, or to frequency multiplied by wavelength?

What is wave speed?

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Waves that have a shape of a sine curve are called?

What is a sinewave ?

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