Mechanical Waves Vocabulary

a disturbance that carries energy from place to place

• mechanical wave

• wave cycle

• model

• wave

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

the matter that a mechanical wave travels through

• model

• medium

• wave

• wave pulse

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

a wave in which particles of matter move back and forth

• mechanical wave

• wave

• wave cycle

• surface wave

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

a representation of a situation which makes important aspects easy to see

• wave

• model

• medium

• wave cycle

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

a wave made of a single disturbance that does not repeat

• wave pulse

• wave

• wave cycle

• transverse wave

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

one complete motion of the repeating pattern of a wave

• surface wave

• wave

• wave cycle

• longitudinal wave

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

a wave in which the matter moves in a pattern perpendicular to the direction that the wave travels

• wave cycle

• transverse wave

• longitudinal wave

• surface wave

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

a wave in which the matter moves in a pattern parallel to the direction that the wave travels

• transverse wave

• longitudinal wave

• surface wave

• wave

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

a wave in which the matter moves in a circular pattern that is sometimes parallel and sometimes perpendicular to the direction that the wave travels

• transverse wave

• longitudinal wave

• surface wave

• wave cycle

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

the ability to cause motion or change

• force

• energy

• matter

• gravity

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A