Types of waves

What type of wave moves by pushing together and spreading apart in a parallel direction to the way the wave travels?

• longitudinal
• transverse
• ocean 
• radio 

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What type of wave must have a medium to vibrate?

• Mechanical
• Electromagnetic
• Infrared
• Radio

What type of wave can travel without a medium? It can travel through a vacuum or empty space.

• Mechanical
• Electromagnetic
• Longitudinal
• Seismic 

What is another word we use to describe empty space?

• Medium
• Vacuum
• Water
• Speed

What do we call a wave where the particles move back and forth perpendicular to the direction the wave travels?

• Transverse
• Longitudinal
• Sound
• Primary Seismic

Which one of the following is an example of a mechanical wave?

• radio
• seismic
• infrared
• ultraviolet

What measures the number of waves that pass a point in a certain amount of time?

• Frequency
• Wavelength
• Amplitude
• Speed

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What measures the distance a wave travels in a certain amount of time, wavelength times frequency?

• Speed
• Frequency
• Amplitude
• Wavelength

What measures the distance from the crest on one wave to the crest on the very next wave?

• Frequency
• Wavelength
• Amplitude
• Speed

What do you call location A on the diagram?

• Rarefaction
• Compression
• Amplitude
• Wavelength