What Are Waves

What Are Waves

Sound Chapter 1 Lesson 1 p. 4-9

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What is the ability to do work?

• Mass

• Energy

• Motion

• Vibration

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A wave is a disturbance involving the transfer of energy from place to place.

• True

• False

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Waves that require a medium to travel through are _____________

• Mechanical
• Electromagnetic
• Water
• Sound

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Examples of waves are sound, light, water, etc... But most waves must travel through a ___________

• Air
• Space
• Medium
• Object

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What is fast movement that moves back and forth?

• vibration

• wave

• mechanical wave

• medium

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The lowest part of a transverse wave are called

• Transversals

• Summits

• Troughs

• Crests

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The highest parts of a transverse wave are called

• Transversals

• Summits

• Troughs

• Crest

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What type of wave makes the particles in a medium move is the same direction of the wave?

• longitudinal wave

• transverse wave

• electromagnetic wave

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In a longitudinal wave, the particles move...?

• back and forth
• up and down
• not at all
• at a 90 degree angle

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Wave that moves perpendicular to the motion of the wave

• transverse
• compressional
• physical 
• chemical

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What are particles like in rarefactions?

• They are spread out.

• There are no particles in rarefactions.

• They are pressed together.

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What are the particles like in compressions?

• They are spread out.

• There are no particles in compressions.

• They are pressed together.

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Surfaces wave are combination of what two waves?

• Longitudinal Waves

• Mechanical Waves

• Transverse Waves

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Which waves move in a circle? (Up and down-Back and forth motions)

• Transerve Waves

• Surface Waves

• Longitudinal Waves

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What the most commons surface waves?

• Ocean Waves

• Slinky

• A rope

Review Questions

Time to see what you have learned!

Multiple Choice

What is the ability to do work?

• Mass

• Energy

• Motion

• Vibration

Multiple Choice

A wave is a disturbance involving the transfer of energy from place to place.

• True
• False

Multiple Choice

Waves that require a medium to travel through are _____________

• Mechanical

• Electromagnetic

• Water

• Sound

Multiple Choice

Examples of waves are sound, light, water, etc... But most waves must travel through a ___________

• Air

• Space

• Medium

• Object

Multiple Choice

What type of wave makes the particles in a medium move is the same direction of the wave?

• longitudinal wave

• transverse wave

• electromagnetic wave

Multiple Choice

In a longitudinal wave, the particles move...?

• back and forth

• up and down

• not at all

• at a 90 degree angle

Multiple Choice

What is fast movement that moves back and forth?

• vibration

• wave

• mechanical wave

• medium

Multiple Choice

Wave that moves perpendicular to the motion of the wave

• transverse

• compressional

• physical

• chemical

Multiple Choice

What are particles like in rarefactions?

• They are spread out.

• There are no particles in rarefactions.

• They are pressed together.

Multiple Choice

What are the particles like in compressions?

• They are spread out.

• There are no particles in compressions.

• They are pressed together.

Multiple Select

Surfaces wave are combination of what two waves?

• Longitudinal Waves

• Mechanical Waves

• Transverse Waves

Multiple Choice

Which waves move in a circle? (Up and down-Back and forth motions)

• Transerve Waves

• Surface Waves

• Longitudinal Waves

Multiple Choice

Which letter is marked at the crests of the wave?

• C
• A
• B
• D

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What the most commons surface waves?

• Ocean Waves

• Slinky

• A rope

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Which letter is marked at the troughs of the wave?

• C
• A
• B
• D

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What type of medium do earthquakes travel through?

• water
• air
• bubbles
• the ground

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Which is an example of a medium that waves can travel though?

• Water
• Energy
• Heat
• A stadium

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What kind of wave is this?

• Transverse
• Longitudinal
• Compression
• Rarefraction

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What kind of wave is this?

• Transverse
• Longitudinal

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What kind of wave is this?

• Transverse
• Longitudinal

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What kind of wave is this?

• Transverse Wave
• Longitudinal Wave

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Which is an example of a longitudinal wave?

• light wave
• sound wave
• visible wave
• radio wave