___________ waves need a medium to travel through and include sound waves and ocean waves.
What is a mechanical wave.
100
Disturbances that carry energy without carrying matter are called...
What are waves.
100
Which property of waves allows them to bounce off of a surface?
What is a reflection.
100
The top of the wave is known as the:
What is crest.
100
An electromagnetic wave looks like a ________ wave.
What is a transverse wave.
200
_________ waves do not need a medium and can travel through the vacuum of space. Examples include visible light and radio waves.
What is electromagnetic waves.
200
______ is the distance from the top of one crest to the top of the next crest, or from the bottom of one trough to the bottom of the next trough.
What is wavelength.
200
What do we call the bending of a wave around a barrier?
What is refraction.
200
The bottom of the wave is known as the _______.
What is a trough.
200
What type of energy is carried by electromagnetic waves?
What is radiant energy.
300
Waves which use matter to transfer energy are called ________ waves.
What is Mechanical waves.
300
How high the wave rises above, or falls below the normal level is called the wave's...
What is amplitude.
300
Waves carry _______.
What is energy.
300
In a _______ wave, the wave energy causes the matter in the medium to move up and down or back and forth at right angles to the direction the wave travels.
What is a transverse wave.
300
________ is how high or low a sound seems to be.
What is pitch.
400
Transverse and compression waves are two examples of these types of waves.
What are mechanical waves.
400
The _______ of a wave is the number of wavelengths that pass a given point in 1s.
What is frequency.
400
An echo is an example of sound's ______.
What is reflection.
400
Sound is an example of this type of mechanical wave:
What is a compression wave.
400
Radio waves are an example of these types of wave.
What is a electromagnetic wave.
500
A compression wave is also known as a _______ wave.
What is a longitudinal wave.
500
___________ happens when two waves overlap as they pass by one another.
What is interference.
500
When waves overlap, and their crests come together at the same time, which type of interference has occured?
What is constructive interference.
500
When waves come together and one wave's trough joins another wave's crest, what type of interference is this?
What is destructive interference.
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Tell where the crest, trough, amplitude, wavelength, and type of wave is in the picture that I draw on the board.
(Each part worth 100 points)