Vocab
What is a wave that travels through matter?
Mechanical Wave
A pebble falling into water is what type of wave?
What is the distance between a point on one wave and the same point on the next wave?
What is it called when sound from your knock passes through the door?
Transmission
What is a wave that travels through empty space?
Electromagnetic wave
The sun's energy reaching earth is what type of wave?
Electromagnetic wave
The number of wavelengths that pass a point each second is a wave's?
Frequency
What is it called when sound energy changes to thermal energy?
What is a wave in which the disturbance is perpendicular to the direction the wave travels?
Transverse Wave
A breeze produces what wave in a flag?
Transverse wave
The maximum distance a wave varies from its rest position is a wave's?
Amplitude
What is it called when some of the energy you used to knock reflects or bounces back into the room?
Reflection
What is a wave that makes the particles of a medium move back and forth parallel to the direction of the wave travels?
Longitudinal Wave
A wave with a longer wavelength has what type of frequency?
A lower frequency
What is the change in direction of a wave as it changes speed, moving from one medium to another?
Refraction