Wave Test 1 Review

What is a wave?

• A disturbance in a medium that transfers energy.

• When something goes up and down.

• When something goes back and forth

• When water hits land

What is represented by number 1

• Amplitude

• Wavelength

• Frequency

• Trough

• Crest

What is represented by number 2

• Amplitude

• Wavelength

• Frequency

• Trough

• Crest

What is represented by number 3

• Amplitude

• Wavelength

• Frequency

• Trough

• Crest

What is represented by the straight horizontal line through the center of the wave?

• Amplitude

• Wavelength

• Trough

• Resting Point

• Frequency

What is transferred in a wave?

• Energy

• Matter

• Particles

• All of the above

What is NOT transferred in a wave?

• Sound energy

• Light energy

• Matter / particles

• All of the above

The two basic types of waves are:

• Transverse and Longitudinal

• Latitudinal and Mechanical

• Wide and narrow

• Longitudinal and Equatorial

Which way do particles vibrate in a transverse wave?

• Up and down, perpendicular to the direction the wave is traveling in

• Side to side, in the same direction the wave is traveling in

• Particles in a transverse wave don’t vibrate

• None of the above

Which of these is the best description of a transverse wave?

• A wave vibrating at right angles to the direction its energy is travelling

• A wave vibrating in the same direction as its energy is travelling

• A wave that crosses other waves.

• A wave that doesn't move.