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General Wave Info
Wave Characteristics
Sound
Light
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?

What is it called that the wave goes through?

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

If I have a red piece of paper, what color gets reflected back to my eye?

red

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 the color of visible light that we SPECIFICALLY we see? (I am not asking HOW we see the color)

the wavelength

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

400
What is the law of reflection?
The angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection.
500

What is the medium for seismic waves (earthquakes)?

earth/dirt

500

What is the number of times a wave passes through a certain point in a given amount of time?

frequency

500
What causes sound waves?
vibrations
500

What type of object lets almost all of the light pass through?

a translucent one

500

If I have a blue piece of paper that contains blue, green, and red in it, what colors are being absorbed?

Red and Green