Characteristics
Properties
Interactions
Seismic
Miscellaneous
100
A disturbance that transfers energy from place to place
What is a wave?
100
The maximum distance that the particles of a medium move from the rest position.
What is the amplitude of a wave?
100
The bending of a wave due to a change in speed.
What is refraction?
100
Waves produced by earthquakes
What are seismic waves?
100
This occurs when vibrations traveling through an object match the object's natural frequency.
What is resonance?
200
Mechanical waves are created when a source of energy causes a medium to ____________.
What is vibrate?
200
The distance between two corresponding parts of a wave is the wave's ______________.
What is wavelength?
200
The bending of waves around the edge of a barrier
What is diffraction?
200
Longitudinal seismic waves are known as ___________.
What are primary waves? (Or P-waves)
200
When a wave hits a surface through which it cannot pass and bounces back, it undergoes _____________.
What is reflection?
300
The highest part of a transverse wave
What is a crest?
300
The speed of a wave is its frequency multiplied by its ___________.
What is wavelength?
300
The interaction between two waves that meet
What is interference?
300
Secondary waves cannot travel through this
What are liquids? (Accept earth's core as a correct answer.)
300
Waves combine to produce a smaller or zero-amplitude wave in a process called _________________.
What is destructive interference?
400
Waves that move the particles of the medium parallel to the direction in which the waves are traveling are called _____________
What are longitudinal waves?
400
Frequency is measured in units called __________.
What is hertz?
400
Waves combine to make a wave with a larger amplitude in a process called ______________.
What is constructive interference?
400
This type of wave arrives at a seismograph first.
What are P waves?
400
Refraction occurs when a wave _____________
What is "enters a new medium at an angle"?
500
Mechanical waves are classified according to ________________________.
What is "how they move"?
500
You see lightning before you hear thunder because ______________.
What is "light travels faster than sound"?
500
When an incoming wave combines with a reflected wave in such a way that the combined wave appears to be standing still
What is a standing wave?
500
The height of a tsunami is low over the open ocean. The tsunami's height increases dramatically when ______________________.
What is "the tsunami reaches shallow water near a coastline"?
500
A wave does this when it moves through an opening in a barrier
What is "bends and spreads out'?
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