Waves Quiz 2024

Multiple Choice

Which travels faster, light or sound?

• light
• sound

WHAT ARE WAVES?

THEY ARE WAVES!!!

​SOUND WAVE

​SEISMIC

WAVE

​OCEAN WAVE

Multiple Choice

What is the top of a wave?

• trough
• crest

Multiple Choice

What is the bottom of a wave?

• trough
• crest

Multiple Choice

What is the distance between crests?

• amplitude

• wavelength

Multiple Choice

What is the height of a wave?

• amplitude
• wavelength

Multiple Choice

Which wave travels in outer space?

• light

• sound

Multiple Choice

When you yell under water, what is the medium that sound travels through?

• air
• water

Multiple Choice

A wave is a disturbance that transfers:

• matter
• energy

Multiple Choice

High Amplitude =__________________

• Louder sounds
• Quieter Sounds

Multiple Choice

What is the red line showing?

• crest

• trough

• wavelength

• amplitude

Multiple Choice

Why can't sound travel through outer space?

• There is almost no matter in outer space, so the vibrations have no way to travel through the atmosphere. There is nothing to carry the sound waves through space.

• Sound actually travels very quickly through outer space because there is no matter to slow down the sound waves.

• There are too many planets and stars in outer space that absorb all of the sound waves, so they cannot travel to the human ear.

• Because outer space is a "vacuum," the vibrations are irregular and travel in too many directions for us to detect the sound.

Multiple Choice

What the letter b showing?

• crest

• trough

• wavelength

• amplitude

Multiple Choice

What is the letter d showing?

• crest

• trough

• wavelength

• amplitude

Multiple Choice

What is the letter a showing?

• crest

• trough

• wavelength

• amplitude