waves

Question 1

the bouncing back of a wave when it hits a surface that it cannot pass through.

Answer 1

Reflection

Question 2

The process by which a waves energy is taken up by a medium.

Answer 2

Absorption

Question 3

The phenomenon that occurs when two waves meet while traveling along the same medium.

Answer 3

Interference

Question 4

A disturbance that travels through space and matter,
transferring energy from one place to another.

Answer 4

Wave

Question 5

When two ways meet and combine to make a wave with a larger amplitude.

Answer 5

Constructive interference.

Question 6

when a wave strikes an object and goes into it (is absorbed), converting energy from the wave to thermal energy.

Answer 6

Wave absorption

Question 7

Where particles are spread apart in a longitudinal wave.

Answer 7

Rarefaction

Question 8

Sound travels faster in an oven than in a freezer because the particles have more kinetic energy at higher temperatures.

Answer 8

Sound travel in temperature

Question 9

When an object causes a wave to change direction and bend around it.

Answer 9

Diffraction

Question 10

A measure of the energy passing through an area in a set of amount of time. Relates to sound.

Answer 10

Intensity

Question 11

Where particles are pushed together in a longitudinal wave.

Answer 11

Compression

Question 12

Process where an object is made to vibrate at its natural frequency by absorbing the energy of another object that is vibrating at the same frequency.

Answer 12

Resonance

Question 13

mechanical waves travel fastest through solids, than liquids,than gases.

Answer 13

Mechanical waves speed

Question 14

How fast the wave travels, measured in meters per second (m/s).

Answer 14

Wave speed (v)

Question 15

Matter through which a wave travels; can be solid, liquid, or gas.

Answer 15

Medium

Question 16

Wave that strikes the surface.

Answer 16

Incident Ray

Question 17

The angle at which a wave reflects off a surface

Answer 17

Angle of reflection

Question 18

The human perception of intensity.

Answer 18

Loudness

Question 19

Indicating the energy of the wave; it could be the height of the wave or the amount of compression of the wave.

Answer 19

Amplitude

Question 20

Waves that can only travel through a meduim

Answer 20

Mechanical waves

Question 21

Waves capable of transferring energy through a vacuum.

Answer 21

Electromagnetic waves

Question 22

The distance between one point on a wave and the nearest point just like it, measured in meters.

Answer 22

Wavelength

Question 23

A wave in which the particles of a medium move perpendicular to the direction of the waves travel

Answer 23

Transverse wave

Question 24

Electromagnetic waves travel fastest through a vacuum and a slowest through solids

Answer 24

Electromagnetic wave speed

Question 25

A wave in which the particles of the medium move parallel to the direction of the waves travel

Answer 25

Longitudinal wave

Question 26

The amount of time it takes one wavelength to pass a point measured in seconds

Answer 26

Period

Question 27

Waves that bounces off of surface

Answer 27

Reflection ray

Question 28

A term related to frequency that increases as frequency increases

Answer 28

Pitch

Question 29

The bending of waves caused by a change in its speed as it moves from one medium through another

Answer 29

Refraction

Question 30

waves that can travel through the vacuum of space and consist of oscillating, electric and magnetic fields.

Answer 30

Electromagnetic waves

Question 31

The number of ways that pass a given point in one second, measured in hertz (Hz)

Answer 31

Frequency (f)

Question 32

When two waves meet and combine to make a wave with a smaller amplitude

Answer 32

Destructive interference

Question 33

The principle stating that the angles incidence is equal to the angle of reflection.

Answer 33

Law of reflection