Wave Interactions

Wave Interactions

• I can explain how waves transfer energy in predictable ways.

 

Reflection involves a change in direction of waves when they bounce off a barrier.

Reflection

• Refraction is the change in direction of a wave passing from one medium to another caused by its change in speed.

• For example, waves travel faster in deep water than in shallow.

Refraction

When waves encounter an obstacle and the bending around the object

Diffraction

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Multiple Choice

Refraction causes waves to bounce back off of an object.

• True

• False

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Which of the following is the bending of a wave, which changes its speed.

• Reflection

• Diffraction

• Refraction

• Frequency

Multiple Choice

This is when sound waves reflect or bounce off an an object.

• Echo

• Transmission

• Refraction

• Absorption

Multiple Choice

When you place things into water they sometimes look bent (see the image below). What is this an example of?

• Refraction

• Diffraction

• Transmission

• Absorption

Multiple Choice

Which type of interaction is this?

• reflection

• refraction

• diffraction

Multiple Choice

Which transverse wave has the highest frequency?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

Multiple Choice

The matter (solid, liquid, or gas) through which waves can travel

• Medium

• Object

• Transverse Wave

• Wavelength

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What does a wave carry from place to place?

• energy

• matter

• people

Multiple Choice

A wave that can travel through matter and empty space is a:

• electromagnetic wave

• longitudinal wavy

• transverse wave

• mechanical

Multiple Choice

What type of wave is this?

• Longitudinal

• Transverse

• Electromagnetic

• x ray

Multiple Choice

The highest point on a wave is:

• the crest

• the trough

• the top

• the coast

Multiple Choice

What kind of wave is pictured below?

• compressional wave

• transverse wave

• sound wave

• mechanical wave

Multiple Select

Which are properties of a mechanical wave?

• can be longitudinal or transverse

• can move through space

• must have matter to move

• carries energy