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Name that Wave
What part is that?
Hands off my property
Making Waves
this and that
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
The maximum distance the particles of a medium move away from their rest positions as a wave passes through the medium.
What is amplitude?
100
What happens to the amplitude of a wave when the energy is increased?
Amplitude increases
100
The material (not too big, and not too small) through which a wave travels.
What is a medium?
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
The distance between two corresponding parts of a wave.
What is wavelength?
200
What happens to the wavelength of a wave when the energy is increased?
Wavelength increases
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
What happens to amplitude when speed is increased?
Amplitude stays the same
300
If four complete waves pass a point in one second, what is the frequency?
4 Hz
400
What are the four properties of a wave?
amplitude, wavelength, frequency, and speed
400
The part of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are far apart.
What is a rarefaction?
400
Unit of measurement for frequency.
What is a hertz (Hz)?
400
What happens to wavelength when speed is increased?
Wavelength decreases
400
A huge surface wave on the ocean caused by an underwater earthquake.
What is a tsunami?
500
What are the three properties of waves that are related, and how are they related?
Speed, Wavelength, and Frequency. They are related by a mathematical equation.
500
Position of a medium that it moves from when energy travels through it.
Resting position
500
The frequency of 300 waves that pass a point in one minute?
What is 5 Hz?
500
What would a beginning surfer want the amplitude and wavelength of waves to be?
Low amplitude, high wavelength
500
What happens to the speed of a wave if the medium, temperature, and pressure do not change?
Speed stays the same