Waves

a disturbance caused by energy moving through a system in a cyclical pattern

• Wave

• Amplitude

• Frequency

• Speed

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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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A wave carries...?

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

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Which of the following can sound travel through?

• solid
• liquid
• gas
• all of the above

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What happens to frequency when the energy increases?

• it increases
• it decreases
• it stays the same

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When wavelength increases, what happens to the frequency?

• it increases
• it decreases
• it stays the same

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Which wave has the most energy?

• top wave
• bottom wave

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high point of a wave

• crest

• trough

• amplitude

• wavelength

Low point of a wave

• crest

• trough

• Amplitude

• wavelength