Waves
The highest point of a transverse wave.
What is a crest?
Waves in which the energy travels up and down.
What are transverse waves?
A year that has 366 days.
What is a leap year?
A society or group of people with similar religious beliefs, customs, language, and form of government.
What is a civilization?
To kill or give something up for a religious purpose.
What is sacrifice?
The lowest point of a transverse wave.
What is a trough?
The matter that waves travel through.
What is the medium?
Waves bend as they move through different matter.
What is refraction?
An expert in the study of ancient people and objects from their time period.
What is an archaeologist?
The capital of the Maya civilization.
What is Tikal?
The length of one wave (crest to crest or trough to trough).
What is a wavelength?
The number of waves that pass by in a given time (waves per second).
What is frequency?
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A day in which daytime and nighttime are about the same in length.
What is an equinox?
An independent city that has its own government.
What is a city-state?
A large Maya city that was famous for its large ball court.
What is Chichen Itza?
The strength of a wave.
What is amplitude?
Area of longitudinal wave that has the MOST energy (particles of matter = closer together).
What is compression?
Moving around often in search of food.
What is nomadic?
A building with a religious use or meaning.
What is a temple?
The study of the stars and space.
What is astronomy?
Waves in which the energy travels side to side.
What are longitudinal waves?
Area of a longitudinal wave that has less energy (particles of matter = farther apart).
What is a rarefaction?
When a wave bounces off matter (like an echo).
A picture or symbol representing an idea, object, or sound.
What is a hieroglyph?
The “three sisters,” which were the most important crops in mesoamerica.
What are corn, beans, and squash?