Waves Test

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?

• Longitudinal

• Transverse

• Standing wave

• Frequency

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

• Refraction

• Transverse

• Frequency

• Medium

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

What is the material that a wave passes through?

• Medium

• Resonance

• Crest

• Frequency

What is it called when matter moves at right angles to the direction the wave travels?

• Wavelength

• Crest

• Transverse waves

• Frequency

What is it called when a wave bends as it moves from one medium to another?

• Refraction

• Amplitude

• Crest

• Wave