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Name that Wave
What part is that?
Sounds
Uses of sound
ENERGY!
100
It can't fix a car, but this does requires a medium through which to travel.
What is a mechanical wave?
100

This is the highest part of a transverse wave, not toothpaste.

What is a crest?

100

When it is increased, the sound gets LOUDER!

What is amplitude?

100

The bouncing back of sound a wave when it hits a surface through which it cannot pass.

What is an echo?

100

Sound is considered to be a form of this type of energy.

What is KINETIC?

200
A wave that moves the medium in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the wave travels.
What is a transverse wave?
200
The lowest part of a transverse wave.
What is a trough?
200

When the frequency INCREASES, this measurement decreases.

What is wavelength?

200

Three animals that use echolocation to communicate.

What are bats, whales, dolphins?

200

A disturbance that transfers energy from place to place.

What is a wave?

300
A wave that moves the medium in a direction parallel to the direction in which the wave travels.
What is a longitudinal wave?
300
The part of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are close together.
What is a compression?
300

The number of complete waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time.

What is frequency?

300

By using sound waves, doctors can view these images of internal organs and babies in the womb.

What is a sonogram?

300

A roller coaster that is pausing at the top of a big hill has lots of this type of energy.

What is POTENTIAL ENERGY

or GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY

400

This type of wave can travel through a vacuum - no medium required!

Electromagnetic wave

400
The part of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are far apart.
What is a rarefaction?
400

The sound from a tuba or foghorn would have this kind of frequency.

What is LOW frequency.

400

You need this on a ship if you want to detect underwater submarines or sunken ships.

What is SONAR?

400

This law tells us that energy cannot be created or destroyed.

What is the law of conservation of energy.

500

Visible light is made of all the colors of the rainbow:

R O Y G B I V

What causes light waves to be different colors?

Different Frequencies of light have different colors.

500

This machine can take a compressional sound wave and display it as a transverse wave on the screen.

What is an OSCILLOSCOPE?

500

A high pitched loud scream would have these 2 characteristics.

What is 

High frequency and High amplitude

500

We see lightning before we hear thunder because of this.

What is the speed of sound is slower than the speed of light.

500

Two other names for "light energy"

What is

ELECTROMAGNETIC

or

RADIANT ENERGY