Wave Interactions
This is what happens when two waves meet and the resulting wave is bigger than the individual waves.
What is constructive interference?
This is when a wave bounces back after hitting a surface.
What is reflection?
This is what we call the height of a wave from the resting position to the crest.
What is amplitude?
This is the part of the ear vibrates when sound waves reach it.
What is the eardrum?
This is the term for the distance between one wave crest and the next.
What is wavelength?
This is when two waves meet and cancel each other out, resulting in a smaller wave or no wave at all.
What is destructive interference?
This is the bending of a wave as it passes from one medium to another.
What is refraction?
This is the number of waves that pass a point in a certain period of time.
What is frequency?
This is the name of the fluid-filled structure in the inner ear that converts sound vibrations into nerve signals.
What is the cochlea?
This is the type of wave that does not require a medium to travel, and can travel in space.
What is electromagnetic wave?
This is what happens when a wave passes through a narrow opening and spreads out.
What is diffraction?
This is the wave interaction that occurs when a pencil bends when put into a cup of water.
This is the type of wave moves particles in a direction parallel to the direction the wave is traveling.
What is longitudinal?
This is the part of the ear that amplifies sound before it reaches the eardrum.
This is the lowest part of a transverse wave.
What is a trough?
This is the term that describes the situation where waves overlap and form a new wave pattern without changing the original waves permanently.
What is interference?
This is what happens when light hits a mirror.
What is reflection?
This is the kind of wave travels through both solids and liquids, but cannot travel through a vacuum.
What is a mechanical wave?
These are the tiny bones in the middle ear help transmit sound vibrations to the inner ear.
What is the ossicles (hammer, anvil, and stirrup)?
This is the phase change that occurs when a solid turns into a gas.
What is sublimation?
This is when an object vibrates at its natural frequency due to an external force.
What is resonance?
This is what happens to a straw in a glass of water when you look at it from the side of the glass.
What is it bends?
This is the type of wave sound waves are (2 types).
What is mechanical and longitudinal wave?
This is the main role of the semicircular canals in the inner ear.
What is help with balance?
This is the phase change that occurs when a gas turns to liquid.
What is condensation?