Wave Behavior

Wave Behavior

Multiple Choice

You can see this text, your desk, and the person in front of you because light is being _______.

• absorbed

• refracted

• diffracted

• reflected

Multiple Choice

When standing in the sun this behavior allows you to warm up as light and other waves hit your clothes.

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Absorption

• Transmission

Multiple Choice

Light waves and sound waves are similar in that...

• They are both longitudinal waves

• They are both transverse waves

• They both transmit energy

• They both can travel through space.

Multiple Choice

What type of wave behavior is pictured above?

• Refraction
• Reflection
• Absorption
• Diffraction

Multiple Choice

The color you see is the color that is ___.

• reflected

• absorbed

Multiple Choice

A leaf is green, what does this tell you about the light that is being absorbed?

• no light is being absorbed

• green is being refracted and all the colors are being absorbed.

• green is being absorbed and all the other colors are reflected

• green is being reflected and all the other colors are being absorbed

Multiple Choice

What type of wave behavior is pictured above?

• Refraction
• Reflection
• Absorption
• Diffraction

Multiple Choice

When a sound wave experiences reflection, we hear

• a louder sound

• an echo

• a quieter sound

• nothing

Multiple Choice

Which of the following represents refraction?

• A
• B
• C
• D

Multiple Choice

Which of the figures represents reflection?

• A
• B
• C
• D

Multiple Choice

What is the definition reflection?

• The bending of waves as they enter a new medium

• Bouncing back of waves from a surface that it can’t pass through

• The bending of waves as they pass through openings or around corners

Multiple Choice

Refraction occurs when _____________

• the wave's speed changes by entering a new medium
• a wave bounces off of a boundary
• waves parts meet each other
• waves bend around a barrier

Multiple Choice

The orca uses this behavior of waves to locate food.

• Refraction

• Reflection

• Absorption

• Transmission

Multiple Choice

What is happening in the picture?

• refraction

• reflection

• absorbtion

Multiple Choice

What type of wave behavior is pictured above?

• Refraction

• Reflection

• Absorption

• Diffraction