General Wave Info
Wave Characteristics
Sound Waves
Light Waves
Wild Card
100
This is a periodic disturbance that transfers energy.
What is a wave?
100
This is the highest point of a wave.
What is crest?
100
What type of wave are sound waves?
What is longitudinal (mechanical)?
100
Light waves are an example of this type of wave.
What is transverse?
100
What determines the color of light we see?
What is wavelength or frequency?
200
This is the physical environment that waves travel through?
What is a medium?
200
This is the lowest point of a wave.
What is a trough?
200
This is the term for how high or how low a wave frequency sounds.
What is pitch?
200
Increasing the tension of a string or drum head has this effect on frequency.
What is increases?
300
These types of waves do not require a medium.
What are light waves?
300
This is the distance from a point on one wave to the same point on the next wave.
What is a wavelength?
300
This determines how loud or soft a sound is.
What is amplitude?
300
This is the term for light waves bounding straight off of an object?
What is reflection?
300
This color light is relatively high-energy, and signals to humans that it is daytime.
What is blue light?
400
These waves are where the particles move perpendicular to the direction of motion.
What are transverse waves?
400
This is the distance (how high or how low) particles move from the baseline of the wave.
What is amplitude?
400
This wave feature determines the pitch of a sound.
What is frequency?
400
This is the term for when a medium converts light waves into another type of energy.
What is absorption?
400
Electromagnetic waves travel at this speed.
What is C?
500
This is the medium for seismic waves.
What is Earth/dirt?
500
Frequency is measured using these units.
What are Hertz?
500
This term describes the "spread out" areas of particles in longitudinal waves.
What is rarefaction?
500
THis is the term for bending of a light wave as it passes from one medium into a different medium.
What is refraction?
500
This type of lens is curved outward, making images appear larger and closer.
What is convex?
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