Parts of a Wave
This is the highest point of a wave.
What is the crest?
The number of waves that pass a point in one second.
What is frequency?
This wave moves perpendicular to the direction it travels.
What is a transverse wave?
If the amplitude of a wave increases, this also increases.
What is the energy?
Sound waves are this type of wave.
What is a longitudinal wave?
This is the lowest point of a wave.
What is the trough?
The unit used to measure frequency.
What is Hertz (Hz)?
This wave moves in the same direction as the vibration of the medium.
What is a longitudinal wave?
If the frequency of a wave goes up, this must be shorter in distance.
What is the wavelength?
The period of a wave 5 seconds. What is the wave's frequency in Hz?
0.2 Hz
The height from the resting position to the crest or trough is called this.
What is amplitude?
This is the word for how fast a wave travels through space or a medium.
What is velocity?
Waves that cause particles to bunch up closely together create this region.
What is compression?
What type of medium does an earthquake wave travel through?
What is a solid or Earth's crust?
One Hertz is equal to this many waves per second.
What is one?
This is the baseline of a wave if there was no disturbance.
What is the rest position?
If a wave has a high frequency, this time-based wave property will be low.
What is period?
In a sound wave, the area where particles are spread apart.
What is rarefaction?
The frequency and this property together determine wave speed.
What is wavelength?
If you double the frequency of a wave with a 5 second period, what will be the new period?
The distance from one crest to the next crest is known as this.
What is wavelength?
The time it takes for one wave to pass a point.
What is the period?
This term refers to the substance a wave travels through.
What is a medium?
In transverse waves, particles move this way compared to wave direction.
What is perpendicular?
The distance between two troughs of a wave is 10 meters. If the wave is traveling at 2.5 meters per second, what is the period of the wave?
4 seconds