Waves
This is the type of wave that travels perpendicular to the flow of energy
What is a transverse wave?
This is the outermost layer of the earth.
What is the crust?
The state of matter that waves move more quickly in
What is a solid?
Top of the wave
What is the crest?
If a wave has a frequency of 5 Hz and you look at data for 3 seconds, how many total wavelengths would you see?
What is 15?
This is the type of wave that has both compressions and rarefactions.
What is a compressional or longitudinal wave?
This is the solid center of the Earth.
What is the inner core?
If an object with a density of 0.90 g/mL is placed in a bucket of water it will do this? (water = 1.001 g/mL)
What is the trough?
Temperature affects speeds of waves in this way
What is a higher temperature generally increases wave speed?
This type of seismic wave travels through both solid and liquid materials.
What is a P-Wave?
This is the molten layer of the Earth.
What is the Outer Core?
The density of an object that has a mass of 6 grams and a volume of 3 mL
What is 2 g/mL?
How tall the wave is from crest to midline OR from trough to midline?
What is amplitude?
This is how convection works within the Earth's mantle.
What is convection transfers heat from the core to crust through mantle movement, driven by temperature differences
This type of seismic wave travels through solid, but not liquids.
What is an S-Wave?
This is the layer of earth that is made of various solids and has two levels of thickness.
What is the Mantle?
This is how temperature affects density.
What is increasing temperature decreases density (particles spread out)?
This is figured by a relationship of mass and volume
What is density?
This is when two waves combine - resulting in a bigger amplitude, a decrease in activity, or a combination of the waves.
What is wave interference?
The definition of a wave
What is a repeating disturbance that transfers energy through matter & space?
This is how a seismograph works.
What is a seismograph measures waves that move in the earth’s layers and measure the motion in the ground.
This is how pressure affects density
What is increasing pressure increases density (particles are compressed)?
Pitch in a sound wave is the same as this vocabulary term.
What is frequency?
This type of wave doesn't travel through the Earth
What is an S-Wave?