Wave info
What is a disturbance that transfers energy?
a wave
What is the highest point of a wave?
crest
What type of wave are sound waves?
longitudinal
What type of waves are light waves? EM
electromagnetic
What is the bouncing back of a light wave after it hits a surface?
reflection
What is the matter that waves occur in?
medium
What is the lowest point of a wave?
trough
What is the measure of how high or how low a wave sounds?
pitch
What is the bending of a light wave as it passes from one medium into a different medium? like a pencil that looks broken in a cup of water
refraction
What do scientists call light we can see?
visible light
What are waves the require a medium (such as sound)?
longitudinal waves
What is the distance from a point on one wave to the same point on the next wave?
wavelength
What determines how loud or soft a sound is?
amplitude
What electromagnetic waves have the highest frequency?
gamma rays
What is the longest color of light?
red
What are waves that move up and down like light waves?
transverse waves
What is the distance from the wave's rest to the top (wave height)?
amplitude
What determines the pitch of a sound?
the frequency of the wave
What type of electromagnetic wave has the longest wavelength?
radio waves
What is reflection?
light bounces back
What is the medium for seismic waves (earthquake)?
earth/dirt
What are the frequency of waves measured in?
Hertz
What causes sound waves?
vibrations
What is the shortest color of light?
violet
What are the order of the colors of the rainbow
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet