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100

A measure of how high or low a sound is that is based on the frequency of the sound wave.

What is pitch?

100

The lowest point on a transverse wave.

What is the trough?

100

The highest point on a transverse wave.

What is the crest?

100

The matter through which a wave travels.

What is a medium?

100

A disturbance that travels away from its source and transfers energy through space.

What is a wave?

200

A wave that transfers energy through a medium by making its particles vibrate.

What is a mechanical wave?

200

A mechanical wave in which the particles of the medium vibrate in the direction parallel to the direction of motion of the wave.

What is a longitudinal wave?

200

The combining of two or more waves, producing a new wave pattern.

What is interference?

200

The number of times per second that a wave vibrates or its adjacent matching points pass a certain point.

What is frequency?

200

A temporary change in normal conditions due to a transfer of energy.

What is a disturbance?

300

The maximum distance from a rest position, that the particles of a medium move, as they vibrate when a wave passes.

What is amplitude?

300

The distance between two adjacent corresponding points along a wave.

What is wavelength?

300

Particles in a transverse wave move in this direction

What is perpendicular?

300

Particles in a longitudinal wave move in this direction

What is parallel?

300

Sounds waves are an example of this type of wave.

What is longitudinal?

400

A wave in which the particles of the medium vibrate in a direction perpendicular to the direction of motion of the wave.

What is a transverse wave?

400

The different pitches you hear on guitar strings are because of this

What is frequency?

400

Periodic and repeating motion about a fixed point

What is vibration?

400
The three main mediums through which waves travel on Earth
What is water, air, and rock?
400

A rubber duck hitting the surface of water is an example of this

What is disturbance?

500

Sound does not travel in space because it lacks this

What is a medium?

500

Waves created by seismic activity pass through this medium

What is rock?

500

True or False: Particles in an ocean wave, near the point of disturbance, are the same particles that reach the shoreline.

What is false?

500

To find the wavelength of a wave, you measure this distance

What is between two adjacent crests or two adjacent troughs? 

500

The midpoint between a wave's crest and its trough is called this

What is the rest position?