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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
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 bending of a light wave as it passes from one medium into a different medium?
refraction
200
What is the bouncing back of a light wave after it hits a surface?
reflection
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? (most energy)

gamma rays

400
What are waves where the particles move perpendicular to the direction of motion?
transverse waves
400
What causes sound waves?
vibrations
400
What is the law of reflection?
The angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection.
400

What type of electromagnetic wave has the longest wavelength? (least energy)

radio waves 

500

What is the medium for seismic waves? (earthquake waves)

earth/dirt

500
What is the distance (how high or how low) particles move from the baseline of the wave?
amplitude
500
What determines what color of visible light we see?
the frequency of the wave
500

If you look at a green apple what colors are reflected and what colors are absorded

green is reflected, everything else is absorbed