Vocab
What is the distance between two points next to each other on the same phase of the wave?
What is wavelength?
What is the highest point of a wave?
What is crest?
What are the three types of mechanical waves?
What is transverse, longitudinal, and surface?
True or false: the crest is the middle part of a wave.
What is false?
What are the three states of matter?
What is solid, liquid, and gas?
What is a portion of the wave that makes the particles squeeze together called?
What is compression?
What is the lowest point of a wave?
What is the trough?
Which type of mechanical wave can be demonstrated with a slinky?
What is longitudinal wave?
What way does a longitudinal wave move?
What is right to left, side to side?
Which state‘s particles move the fastest?
What is gas?
What is the exact opposite of compression called?
What is rarefaction?
What is the medium before the wave hits?
What is the rest point?
Which mechanical waves only move up and down?
What is transverse wave?
True or false: compression only happens in one type of wave.
What is true?
What is it called to go from solid to liquid?
What is melting?
What is the exact opposite of compression?
What is rarefaction?
The medium of a wave before it becomes disturbed is called?
What is equilibrium?
What types of mechanical wave is also known as a compression wave?
What is longitudinal?
What is a medium?
What is the matter that a mechanical wave travels through?
What is it called to go from liquid to gas?
What is vaporization or evaporation?
What is a mechanical wave?
What is an oscillation of matter that transfers energy from one item to another?
Which state of matter can mechanical waves not travel through?
What is trick question; they can go through all states of matter.
What is a mechanical wave that moves along the boundary of two different media?
What is surface wave?
What is when an energy source causes a vibration to move through matter?
What is it called to go from solid to gas?
What is sublimation?