Waves and Their Applications Quiz 2: Sound Waves

travels through solids fastest because the molecules are closer together

• speed of sound
• wavelength
• frequency
• amplitude

Material (matter) through which a wave travels

• medium
• Doppler Effect
• sound
• pitch

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How high or low a sound is; depends on the frequency (greater frequency= higher pitch)

• pitch
• frequency
• sound
• medium

A wave in which the vibration is in the same direction as that in which the wave is traveling; sound waves

• longitudinal wave
• ocean wave
• transverse wave
• mechanical wave

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The part of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are close together.

• rarefaction
• compression
• crest
• trough

A reflected sound wave

• frequency
• pitch
• echo
• rarefaction

A wave that requires a medium through which to travel

• mechanical wave
• chemical wave
• electromagnetic wave
• pitch

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When a sound is louder what measurement gets bigger?

• Frequency 
• Amplitude 
• Wavelength 
• Crest

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