General Wave Info
Wave Characteristics
Sound
Light
Colors
100
What is a periodic disturbance that transfers energy?
a wave
100
What is the highest point of a wave?
crest
100
What type of wave are sound waves?
longitudinal (mechanical)
100
What type of waves are light waves?
electromagnetic
100
What is the bouncing back of a light wave after it hits a surface?
reflection
200
What is the physical environment that waves occur in?
medium
200
What is the lowest point of a wave?
trough
200
What is the measure of how high or how low a wave sounds?
pitch
200
What is the bending of a light wave as it passes from one medium into a different medium?
refraction
200

When white light passes through a prism, it separates into this range of colors, which includes red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

Visible Light Spectrum

300
What are waves the require a medium (such as sound)?
mechanical waves
300
What is the distance from a point on one wave to the same point on the next wave?
wavelength
300
What determines how loud or soft a sound is?
amplitude
300
What electromagnetic waves have the highest frequency?
gamma rays
300

What determines what color of visible light we see?

the frequency of the wave

400
What are waves where the particles move perpendicular to the direction of motion?
transverse waves
400
What is the distance (how high or how low) particles move from the baseline of the wave?
amplitude
400
What determines the pitch of a sound?
the frequency of the wave
400

What type of electromagnetic wave has a higher frequency than visible light but longer wavelength than x-rays?

ultraviolet 

400
What is the law of reflection?
The angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection.
500
What is the medium for seismic waves?
earth/dirt
500

This is the term for the number of complete wave cycles that pass a given point in one second, and its unit of measurement is Hertz (Hz).

frequency

500
What causes sound waves?
vibrations
500
Which lens produces a virtual image?

concave

500

This part of the eye contains special cells called cones that help us see colors by detecting light in red, green, and blue wavelengths.

retina

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