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Wave Properties
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Light Waves
Sound Waves
Seismic Waves
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The distance (how high or how low) from the line of equilibrium of the wave.
What is Amplitude
100
This is the inverse of period.
What is frequency?
100
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What is the order of the colored light spectrum?
100
This is a medium sound cannot travel in.
What is a vacuum?
100
The two different waves caused by an earthquake
What is P (primary) waves and S (secondary) waves?
200
This is the inverse of frequency.
What is period?
200
Waves that require a medium (such as sound).
What are mechanical waves?
200
The bouncing back of a light wave after it hits a surface?
What is reflection?
200
The measure of how high or how low a sound wave sounds?
What is the pitch?
200
The location on the surface above where an earthquake occurrs.
What is epicenter?
300
A periodic disturbance that transfers energy.
What is a wave?
300
Electromagnetic waves that have the highest frequency.
What are gamma rays?
300
The bending of a light wave as it passes from one medium into a different medium.
What is refraction?
300
These mammals can hear frequencies between 20Hz and 20,000 Hz.
What are humans?
300
The medium for seismic waves.
What is the earth/rock/soil?
400
This is a wave produced by an object moving faster than the waves travel in a fluid.
What is a bow wave?
400
Waves where the particles move perpendicular to the direction of motion.
What are transverse waves?
400
A light wave is this type of wave because it can travel through a vacuum.
What is an electromagnetic wave?
400
This is the kind of interference used in noise cancellation.
What is destructive?
400
The seismic wave that is most destructive and the type of wave it is.
What is S waves /transverse?
500
A wave with a frequency of 10 Hz and a wavelength of 0.5m would have this wave speed.
What is 5 m/s?
500
A wave that is traveling at 20m/s with a frequency of 100 Hz must have this wavelength.
What is 0.2m?
500
This type of light is all different wavelengths of visible light together.
What is white light?
500
A sound wave is considered this type of wave because of the back and forth motion of the particles in the medium it is traveling.
What is longitudinal (mechanical)?
500
Earthquakes are caused by this.
What is the shifting of tectonic plates?