Ocean Waves

Front

What is a crest?

Back

The highest point or peak of a wave.

Front

What is a trough?

Back

The lowest point, or valley, of a wave.

Front

What is a wave?

Back

A disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another.

Front

What is amplitude in a wave?

Back

The maximum distance the particles of a medium move from their resting positions when a wave passes through.

Front

What is wavelength?

Back

The distance between two consecutive crests or troughs in a wave.

Front

What is the relationship between wavelength and frequency?

Back

As wavelength increases, frequency decreases, and vice versa.

Front

What is the medium in the context of waves?

Back

Any substance that a wave moves through.

Front

What type of wave travels in the same direction as the disturbance?

Back

A longitudinal wave.

Front

What is a transverse wave?

Back

A wave in which particles of the medium vibrate at right angles to the direction that the wave travels.

Front

What is the formula for wave speed?

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Wave speed = Wavelength x Frequency.