Waves Test IPC

What is the measure of a wave’s energy?

• Amplitude

• Rarefaction

• Resonance

• Medium

What is the highest point of the wave?

• Wave

• Medium

• Crest

• Transverse

What is a repeating disturbance that transfers energy through matter or space?

• Trough

• Compressional

• Wave

• Amplitude

What type of wave has matter that moves in the same direction as the wave travels?

• Compressional

• Transverse

• Standing wave

• Frequency

What word means a number of wavelengths that pass a fixed point each second?

• Refraction

• Transverse

• Frequency

• Medium

What word means the bending of a wave as it passes around a barrier?

• Diffraction

• Interference

• Resonance

• Trough

What is the word when two or more waves overlap and combine to form a new wave?

• Refraction

• Amplitude

• Wave

• Interference

What is the ability of an object to vibrate by absorbing energy at its natural frequency?

• Medium

• Resonance

• Crest

• Wave

What is the distance between one point on a wave and the nearest point just like it?

• Wavelength

• Compressional

• Transverse

• Medium

What are the wide (spread apart) portions of a compressional wave?

• Standing wave

• Amplitude

• Rarefaction

• Interference