General Wave Info
Wave Characteristics
Sound
Light
Colors
100

What is a repeating pattern of motion that transfers energy from place to place?

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 (the stuff) 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

What is the glass piece called that can refract white light into the colors?

prism

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 is the transfer of the energy of the wave to the medium it comes into contact with?

absorption

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 the longest wavelength?
sound waves
400

True or False - The angle in which a wave reflects off of a surface is equal to the wave angle coming in. 

True

500

What is the medium for seismic waves?

earth/dirt

500

What is the number of waves called that pass a point in 1 second?

frequency

500
What causes sound waves?
vibrations
500

What is it called when the energy of the wave passes through the medium?

Transmittance 

500

What does opaque mean? 

No light passes through, not transparent. 

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