Waves Vocab

A wave that moves the medium parallel to the direction in which the wave travels.

• compression
• rarefaction
• transverse waves
• longitudinal wave

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What produces sound?

• disturbance
• vibrations
• amplitude
• rarefaction

The length and width of waves, such as sound waves, as they move or vibrate.

• compression
• amplitude
• vibrations
• wavelength

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A space where no particles of matter exist

• trough
• rarefaction
• compression
• vacuum

Transfers energy progressively from point to point. It may take the form of an transverse or longitudinal wave.

• rarefaction
• disturbance
• vibrations
• compression

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The distance between two corresponding parts of a wave.

• transverse waves
• wavelength
• compression
• rarefaction

An oscillation accompanied by a transfer of energy that travels through a medium (space or mass).

• wave
• wavelength
• disturbance
• vacuum

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An area where the particles in a medium are spread out.

• rarefaction
• transverse wave
• wavelength
• compression

Waves in which the particles vibrate in an up and down motion.

• transverse waves
• longitudinal wave
• compression
• rarefaction

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An area where the particles in a medium are pushed togother.

• compression
• wavelength
• rarefaction
• transverse wave