Wave Properties Test

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What are the two main categories of waves?

Back

Mechanical Waves and Electromagnetic Waves.

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What happens when a wave encounters a barrier?

Back

The wave bounces off the surface of the barrier, a process called reflection.

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What happens to light when it passes through a translucent material?

Back

It scatters and makes the image look blurred.

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What is the medium of a wave?

Back

A substance through which a wave travels.

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What is a material that transmits MOST of the light called?

Back

Transparent.

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What are Mechanical Waves?

Back

Waves that require a medium to travel through, such as sound waves.

Front

What are Electromagnetic Waves?

Back

Waves that do not require a medium and can travel through a vacuum, such as light waves.

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What is Reflection in wave behavior?

Back

The bouncing back of a wave when it hits a barrier.

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What is Refraction?

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The bending of a wave as it passes from one medium to another.

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What is Diffraction?

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The spreading out of waves when they pass through a narrow opening or around obstacles.