vocab
types of waves.
characteristics of waves
Wave interacions
wave properties
100

The matter through which a wave travels

What is a medium 

100

What does a wave carry?

What is a disturbance that carries energy through matter or space.

100

How can you calculate the speed of a wave?

What is Wavelength divided by period equals wave speed.

100

Explain why colors appears on the surface of a soap bubble?

What is light reflecting off the front and back surface of the thin soap film.

100

As frequency increases, wavelength does what ?

What is Decreases 

200

Waves that require a medium 

Mechanical waves

200

How are waves generated?

What is vibration.

200

What are some ways to measure waves?

What is distance.

200

When the crest of one wave meets the trough of another wave, the resulting wave has a similar amplitude than the larger of the two waves.

Destructive interference 

200

As wavelength increases, frequency does this.

What is decreases

300

The distance from one crest to the next crest 

What is wavelength 

300

What are ripples?

What is a type of wave.

300

How to compare waves?

What is period and frequency are measurements based on time.

300

Results from interference between a wave and it’s reflected wave.

What is a Standing wave

300

As wave energy increases this also increase.

What is amplitude 

400

The number of wavelength that pass a point in a given time interval 

What is frequency 

400

How do the particles in ocean waves move?

What is perpendicular and parallel.

400

Why sound waves travel faster in liquids or solids than in air?

What is the molecules of a solid are closer together and can transmit energy faster.

400

What happens when two or more waves are in the same location?

What is combine to produce a single.

400

The highest point on a wave 

What is the crest 
500

This change in the observed frequency of a wave 

What is Dropper effect 

500

Name the one kind of wave that does not require a medium.

What is electromagnetic waves.

500

Why does the pitch of an ambulance siren change as the ambulance rushes past you?

What is motion between the source of waves and the observer.

500

How does a standing wave affect the medium in which it travels?

What is to vibrate in stationary pattern that resembles a loop.

500

A mechanical wave cannot travel through…

What is empty space