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Name that Wave
Waves Interacting
What Part is That
Hands off my property
this and that
100
It can't fix a car, but this wave does require a medium through which to travel.
What is a mechanical wave.
100
The bending of waves as they move around a barrier or pass through an opening.
What is diffraction?
100
The part of the longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are close together.
What is a compression?
100
The distance from any point on a wave to an identical point on the next wave.
What is wavelength?
100
The rule that the angle of reflection equals the angle of incidence.
What is the law of reflection?
200
A wave that moves the medium parallel to the direction the wave travels.
What is longitudinal wave?
200
The bouncing back of an object or wave when it hits a surface in which it can not pass.
What is reflection?
200
The lowest part of a transverse wave.
What is the trough?
200
The number of cycles or vibrations per unit of time; also the number of waves produced in a given amount of time.
What is frequency?
200
The material through which a wave travels.
What is a medium?
300
A wave that moves the medium in a perpendicular direction to that of which the wave is moving.
What is a transverse wave?
300
The increase in the amplitude of a vibration that occurs when external vibrations match an object’s natural frequency.
What is resonance
300
This is not toothpaste, but it is the highest part of a transverse wave.
What is the crest?
300
The maximum distance that the particles of a wave's medium vibrate from their rest position.
What is amplitude?
300
These are transverse seismic waves.
What is an S wave.
400
This wave moves both perpendicular and parallel to the direction in which the wave travels.
What is a surface wave?
400
The combination of two or more waves that results in a single wave.
What is interference?
400
This is a point of maximum amplitude on a standing wave.
What is an antinode?
400
The frequency of 300 waves that pass a point in one minute?
What is 5 Hz?
400
A huge surface wave caused by an underwater earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
500
A wave that appears to stand in one place, even though it is really two waves interfering as they pass through each other.
What is a standing wave?
500
An observed change in the frequency of a wave when the source or the observer are moving.
What is the Doppler effect?
500
The part of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are far apart.
What is rarefaction?
500
This is the unit of measurement for frequency.
What is a hertz (Hz)?
500
This is a disturbance that transfers energy from place to place
What is a wave?