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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?
medium
200
What is the lowest point of a wave?
trough
200

The number of waves produced in a given amount of time is __________?

the frequency

200
What is the bending of a light wave as it passes from one medium into a different medium?
refraction
200

What has to happen for us to see "color"?

That size wavelength has to be reflected.

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

How do we "see" the color black?

All sizes of visible/white light have to be absorbed.

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

A section of a sound wave in which the particles as squished together is a __________?

Compression

400

What type of electromagnetic wave has the longest wavelength?

radio waves

400

How do we see/detect Infrared wavelengths?

We see with technology (Infrared cameras) and we detect them as "heat" or warmth.

500
What is the medium for seismic waves?
earth/dirt
500

What is the pace at which a wave travels called?

wave speed

500
What causes sound waves?
vibrations
500

When the sound wave is compressed in front of a moving object & the sound is a higher pitch, it is called....

The Doppler effect

500

What is it called when the medium takes in the energy of the EM wave?

Absorption