Sound Waves

Sound waves are made by ______

• Noise

• Vibrations

• Mouth

• People

When a sound wave has far apart wavelengths it is called....

• Compression
• Rarefaction
• Cresting
• Trough

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Sound waves are ALWAYS what type of wave?

• Transverse
• Longitudinal 
• Depends 
• always different

Material (matter) through which a wave travels

• medium
• Doppler Effect
• sound
• pitch

The number of wavelengths that pass a point each second

• frequency
• wavelength
• pitch
• amplitude

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

A wave that requires a medium through which to travel

• mechanical wave
• chemical wave
• electromagnetic wave
• pitch

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A sound wave is an example of a(n) _______ wave.

• transverse

• longitudinal

• crest-and-trough

• electromagnetic

Sound waves from a vibrating source travel

• in one direction

• in two directions

• in all directions

• back and forth

Low Amplitude = ______________

• Quieter Sounds
• Louder sounds

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