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General Wave Info
Wave Characteristics
Sound
EM Waves
Colors
100
What is a periodic disturbance that transfers energy?
a wave
100
What is the highest point of a wave?
crest
100
What type of wave are sound waves?
longitudinal (mechanical)
100
What type of waves are light waves?
electromagnetic
100
What is the bouncing back of a light wave after it hits a surface?
reflection
200
What is the physical environment that waves occur in?
medium
200
What is the lowest point of a wave?
trough
200
What is the measure of how high or how low a wave sounds?
pitch
200
What is the bending of a light wave as it passes from one medium into a different medium?
refraction
200

What is the unit that measures wave frequency?

Hertz (1 Hz = 1 wave per second)

300
What are waves the require a medium (such as sound)?
mechanical waves
300
What is the distance from a point on one wave to the same point on the next wave?
wavelength
300
What determines how loud or soft a sound is?
amplitude
300
What electromagnetic waves have the highest frequency?
gamma rays
300
What determines what color of visible light we see?
the frequency of the wave
400
What are waves where the particles move perpendicular to the direction of motion?
transverse waves
400
What is the distance (how high or how low) particles move from the baseline of the wave?
amplitude
400
What determines the pitch of a sound?
the frequency of the wave
400

What type of electromagnetic wave has the longest wavelength?

radio waves

400

Which color has the longest wavelength? 

red light has the longest wavelength and the shortest frequency

500
What is the medium for seismic waves?
earth/dirt
500
What is the time it takes for a wave to complete one cycle?
period
500
What causes sound waves?
vibrations
500

What travels faster: Visible light, Xrays, or Radio waves?

They all are EM waves and travel at the same speed.

500

All the colors of light mixed together would produce what color?

White light