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The unit of loudness
What is a Decibel?
A mechanical wave that carries sound energy through a medium
A wave that vibrates in the same direction it travels
What is a Longitudinal Wave?
A wave that vibrates at right angles to the direction of travel
What is a Transverse Wave?
The effect that occurs when two waves meet
What is an Interference?
To vibrate at the same frequency as something else
What is Resonate?
Waves carry this
What is Energy?
What are Peaks?
Vibrations in a solid, liquid, or gas are called
What is Mechanical Waves?
Low points of a wave are called this
What are Troughs?
True or False. Sound is energy we can hear.
True
High sounds, such as birds singing, have this type of frequency waves.
What is High-Frequency waves?
True or False. A Longitudinal Wave carries energy and causes the particles of a substance it moves through to vibrate.
False. Mechanical Wave.
True or False. Sound cannot travel through air and water.
False. Sound can travel through air and water.
Low sounds, such as the rumble made by the engine of a heavy truck, have these types of waves.
What is Low-Frequency waves?
A complete wave is known as this
What is a Cycle?
Any substance through which waves travel is called
A form of energy carried by waves of vibrating particles is called this
What is Sound?
Sound waves that have reflected (bounced) off a surface and are heard shortly after the original sound
What is an Echo?
Animals use this to find their way around or to locate prey
What is Echo Location?
Sound waves can travel through these 3 things
What is a Solid, liquid, and gas?
What is a Vacuum?
A speed that is faster than the speed of sound in the same conditions is known as this
True or False. All waves carry energy.
True