Science Waves

What is Wavelength?

• The distance from trough to trough or crest to crest

• The distance of rest point to crest or trough

• The line or rest

• The start to end of a wave

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What is Amplitude?

• The distance from trough to trough or crest to crest

• Like altitude

• distance from rest position to crest or trough

• I have no clue

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Where is the trough?

• Top of line

• Bottom of line

• Beginning

• End

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Where is the crest?

• Top of line

• Bottom of line

• Beginning

• End

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Waves that require a medium are called 

• mechanical waves
• transverse waves
• light waves
• gamma rays

What happens when you increase the amplitude of a sound?

• it makes the sound louder
• it makes the sound travel faster
• it increases the wavelength of the sound
• it increases the frequency of the sound

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What kind of wave is pictured below?

• compressional wave

• transverse wave

• sound wave

• mechanical wave

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What do waves carry from place to place?

• Energy, but not matter or particles
• Energy and matter or particles
• Matter or particles but not energy
• Neither energy nor matter or particles

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Which wave is pictured?

• Transverse
• Longitudinal
• Both
• Neither

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A wave carries...?

• energy only
• matter only
• energy and matter
• neither

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