Waves Review

What is the highest point of the wave?

• Wave

• Medium

• Crest

• Transverse

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

• Wavelength

• Compressional

• Transverse

• Medium

What is the lowest point of a wave?

• Refraction

• Standing wave

• Trough

• Amplitude

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

• Wavelength

• Crest

• Transverse waves

• Frequency

The substance the wave travels through (solid, liquid, gas)

• Seismic
• Medium
• Trough
• Crest

The bending of a wave caused by a change in its speed as it moves from one medium to another. 

• Reflection
• Rarefaction
• Refraction

Two students are modeling waves using a length of rope between them, as shown below.

Based on the information above, what will most likely occur when the two waves interact?

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A student uses a springy metal coil to model a wave, as shown. Which type of wave is most like the student's model?

• Longitudinal wave

• Transverse wave

• Standing wave

• Diffractional wave