Energy
Which type of wave moves matter forward and backward in the medium in the same direction as the wave?
What is a Longitudinal Wave.
The number of cycles of a wave in a certain amount of time.
What is frequency?
How fast a wave moves.
What is wave speed?
Sound waves are produced by
What are vibrations?
Waves move _____, not matter.
What is energy?
The region of a longitudinal wave where the particles are close together.
What is compression?
The lowest point of a wave.
What is a trough?
These type of waves are produced by earthquakes
What are seismic waves?
What happens to the energy of a wave as you increase the amplitude?
It increases
The distance between two like points in a wave.
What is wavelength?
What waves travel through.
What is a medium?
Animals like bats use this to find their food
What is echolocation?
High frequency waves have _______ wavelengths.
What is short wavelengths?
A wave containing compressions and refractions.
What is a longitudinal wave?
A wave that needs a medium to travel is called a
What is mechanical wave?
When sound waves bounce against something it produces?
What is an echo?
Sound waves travel the fastest through solids, liquids, gases, or all equally?
What is solids?
A wave containing a crest/trough.
What is a transverse wave?
What type of wave does not need a medium to travel through?
What is electromagnetic wave?
This unit is used to measure frequency
What is hertz?