Waves that require a medium are called 

• mechanical waves
• transverse waves
• light waves
• gamma rays

What kind of wave moves at right angles to the direction of the wave?

• compressional waves
• mechanical waves
• transverse waves
• ultraviolet rays

What do we call the part of a longitudinal wave that is when the waves are squeezed together?

• compression
• rarefaction
• crest
• trough

What do we call the part of a longitudinal wave that is spread a part?

• compression
• rarefaction
• crest
• trough

What can electromagnetic waves travel through?

• mediums
• empty space
• solely solids
• both mediums and empty space

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What is a repeating disturbance or vibration that transfers or moves energy from place to place?  

• Medium
• Wave
• Compression
• Rarefaction

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What is the name of a material in which waves, like sound waves, seismic waves, and waves in a slinky travel through

• Vacuum
• Medium
• Mechanical
• Space

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Which of these CANNOT travel in empty space?

• electromagnetic waves
• mechanical

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Which of these waves can travel in a vacuum (empty space)/

• sound wave
• radio wave
• compressional wave
• water wave

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All waves carry

• energy
• light 
• matter
• particles

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