Waves Vocabulary

A disturbance that repeats regularly in space and time and that transmits energy from one place to another with no transfer of matter.

• waves

• wave speed

• frequency

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

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the wave's displacement from its state of rest.

• amplitude

• wavelength

• wave speed

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

the length of one wave cycle

• wave speed

• wavelength

• wave

the number of vibrations per second the ear receives, otherwise known as the sound's pitch.

• transverse wave

• compression

• frequency

transfers energy through compressions and rarefactions in the material through which the wave travels.

• transverse waves

• longitudinal waves

• frequency

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

the motion of the material is perpendicular to the direction that the energy travels.

• wavelength

• longitudinal waves

• transverse waves

the region of the wave in which the material through which the wave is transmitted is pressed together.

• compression

• rarefaction

• wave

the material in which wave energy travels.

• longitudinal wave

• transverse wave

• medium

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

measured in meters per second (m/s)

• medium

• wave speed

• Hertz

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NGSS.HS-PS4-1

the scientific name for the colors of the rainbow

• frequency

• waves

• visible light spectrum