Waves (Lessons 1-1, 1-2, and 1-3)

What do you call the number of waves that pass a given point in one second; measured in waves per second or Hertz?

• frequency

• diffraction

• wave

• amplitude

What is the measure of the energy a waves carry; distance from crest to trough to the resting position?

• amplitude

• freuquency

• diffraction

• wave

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

The bending of waves around a barrier is called ____________

• diffraction

• frequency

• wave

• amplitude

What are regular disturbances that carry energy through matter or space without carrying matter; can have different frequencies, amplitudes, and speeds?

• waves

• amplitude

• frequency

• diffraction

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

What is the ability for two or more waves to combine and form a new wave when they overlap; it can be destructive or constructive?

• interference

• transverse wave

• refraction

• longitudinal wave

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

What is the bending of a light wave when it changes speed in moving from one material to another?

• refraction

• interference

• transverse wave

• longitudinal wave

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

A wave in which the matter in the medium moves forward and backward, in the same direction the wave travels, is known as what?

• compression wave

• transverse wave

• refractable wave

• interference wave

Which type of wave is described as a wave in which matter moves back and forth, at right angles, to the direction the wave travels?

• transverse wave

• longitudinal wave

• compression wave

• interference wave

Waves that do no need matter to carry energy and can travel through air, solid walls, and space are called _________.

• electromagnetic wave

• mechanical wave

• transverse waves

• compressional waves

Which type of wave can travel only through matter?

• mechanical wave

• electromagnetic wave

• refractable wave

• kinetic wave