Parts of Wave
The highest part of a transverse wave
What is the Crest?
How many waves pass by a given point in 1 second..
What is frequency?
This type of light is the only type that can be seen by the human eye.
What is visible light?
Sound waves are actually ______ moving through matter or particles
What are vibrations?
When light or sound waves bounce off of a surface, this phenomena is known as ________
What is reflection?
The lowest part of a transverse wave.
What characteristic of sound waves will change when the AMPLITUDE changes...
What is volume or loudness
This kind of light waves cause sunburns. These waves have more energy than visible light but less energy than x-rays.
What are microwaves?
Because the particles are closer together, sound waves can move the fastest through this kind of medium.
What are solids?
When a blue wavelength of light is shined on a red apple, the blue light gets ________.
What is absorbed or absorption?
The distance between two waves
What is the wavelength?
Changing the AMPLITUDE of visible light waves will also change the...
What is brightness or intensity?
This type of light waves are given off or emitted by any object that is warm or has heat energy. This type of light wave is longer than microwaves but shorter than visible light.
What are infrared waves?
Sound waves need this in order to have something to travel through
What is a medium?
When light waves change speed and direction as they move from one type of medium to another, this phenomena is known as ____________.
What is refraction?
The squished part of a longitudinal wave
What is the rarefaction?
What characteristic of sound waves will change when the FREQUENCY changes...
What is pitch?
This type of electromagnetic wave (light wave) has the longest and lowest energy of all the waves on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM Spectrum).
What are radio waves?
If a sound wave is moving in a certain direction, will the matter the wave is moving through move parallel or perpendicular to the wave?
What is parallel?
When light waves move through matter with little to no interaction, this is called __________.
What is transmitting or transmittance?
What is the rarefaction?
Changing the FREQUENCY of visible light waves will also change the...
What is color
This type of electromagnetic wave (light waves) has the shortest wavelength and highest energy of all waves on the electromagnetic spectrum (EM Spectrum). These type of waves cause radiation sickness, they don't actually turn you into superheroes.
What are gamma waves?
There are 3 properties of matter that can effect how fast sound waves travel. Name one
What is density, temperature, and elasticity
The sky is blue because the blue wavelengths of light from the sun are __________ as they interact with Earth's atmosphere.
What is scattered or scattering?