The bouncing back of a wave after it strikes a barrier?
What is REFLECTION
100
Amplitude
What is the distance between a crest or trough of a wave and line through the center of a wave (half distance between the crest and trough of wave) the maximum distance that a disturbance causes a medium to move from its resting position?
100
A state of rest or balance due to the equal action of opposing forces.
What is EQUILIBRIUM
100
Refraction
What is the bending of a wave as it crosses the boundary between two mediums at an angle other than 90 degrees.
100
The distance from any part of one wave to the identical part of the next wave (from crest to crest)?
What is wavelength
200
The lowest point of a wave?
What is TROUGH
200
Crest
What is the highest point of a wave?
200
The number of times a wave passes a certain point.
What is FREQUENCY
200
Wave
What is a disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another without requiring matter to move the entire distance.
200
What is the lowest part of a wave called?
What is TROUGH
300
The measurement used to assess the loudness of a sound?
What is DECIBLES
300
Diffraction
What is the spreading out of waves as they pass through an opening or around the edges of an obstacle.
300
The meeting and combining of waves; the adding or subtracting of wave amplitudes that occurs as waves overlap.
What is INTERFERENCE
300
Mechanical Wave
What is a wave, such as a sound or a seismic wave, that transfers kinetic energy through matter.
300
What is another name for a longitudinal wave?
What is compression wave
400
A substance through which a wave travels?
What is MEDIUM
400
Electromagnetic Spectrum
What is the range of the seven types of waves that carry energy as electricity or magnetism. In order from lowest to highest frequency: radio waves, microwaves, infrared light, visible light.
400
A machine that translates sound into a pattern; it measures sound waves.
What is OSCILLOSCOPE
400
Transverse Wave
What is a type of wave in which the disturbance moves at right angles, or perpendicular, to the direction in which the wave travels. Electromagnetic waves are transverse waves.
400
The highest most point of a wave?
What is CREST
500
The speed of a wave is determined when both frequency and wavelength are known?
What is speed
500
Energy
What is the ability to do work or cause change.
500
Property of sound which makes it high or low; pitch is associated with the frequency of a sound wave-the higher the frequency, the higher the pitch.
What is PITCH
500
Longitudinal Wave
What is a type of wave in which the disturbance moves in the same direction that the wave travels. These types of waves are sometimes called compression waves.