Waves Vocabulary

A traveling oscillation that has properties of frequency, wavelength and amplitude

• wave

• reflection

• refraction

• absorption

The distance from any point on a wave to the same point on the next cycle of the wave

• wave

• wavelength

• wavefront

• diffraction

The leading edge of a moving wave

• wave

• wavefront

• wavelength

• transverse

Moving waves that have crests in PARALLEL straight lines

• plane waves

• circular waves

• big waves

• small waves

Moving waves that have crests that form CIRCLES around a single point where the wave began

• circular waves

• plane waves

• small waves

• big waves

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The process of a wave BOUNCING off an object

• reflection

• refraction

• absorption

• diffration

The process of a wave bending as it crosses a boundary between two materials

• refelction

• refraction

• diffraction

• absorption

The process of a wave bending around a corner or passing through an opening

• reflection

• refraction

• diffraction

• absorption

What happens when the amplitude of a wave gets SMALLER and SMALLER as it passes through material

• reflection

• refraction

• diffraction

• absorption

A wave is transverse is its oscillation are NOT in the DIRECTION it moves

• transverse waves

• longitudinal waves

• plane wave

• circular wave