Waves Review

Mechanical waves are created when a source of energy causes a medium to...

• Move
• Expand
• Vibrate
• Compress

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What occurs when vibrations traveling through an object match the object’s natural frequency?

• Refraction
• Reflection
• Diffraction
• Resonance

The distance between two corresponding parts of a wave is the wave’s

• Wavelength
• Frequency
• Amplitude
• Speed

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The interaction between two waves that meet is called

• refraction
• reflection
• diffreaction
• interference

The speed of a wave is its wavelength multiplied by its

• Vibration
• Frequency
• Amplitude
• Reflection

Why do you see lightning from a distant storm before you hear thunder?

• Your eyes react faster than your ears
• Light travels faster than sound
• The thunder is produced after the lightening

Waves combine to produce a smaller or zero-amplitude wave in a process called

• Destructive Interference
• Reflection
• Refraction
• Constructive Interference

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As the frequency of a wave traveling at constant speed increases, its ____________________ decreases.

• wavelength
• amplitude
• speed
• reflection

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The more ____________________ a mechanical wave has, the greater its amplitude.

• reflection
• energy
• speed
• frequency

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How can you measure the wavelength of a transverse wave?

• crest to crest
• amplitude (height of the wave)
• frequency of the wave in a given time
• Speed

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