Waves Review

What is a disturbance that transfers energy from place to place?

• Wave

• energy

• medium

• vibration

What is the ability to do work or cause change?

• wave

• energy

• crest

• wave speed

What is the material through which a wave travels?

• medium

• energy

• wave

• resonance

What wave requires a medium to travel?

• compression

• rarefaction

• standing waves

• mechanical waves

What is a repeated back and forth or up and down mostion?

• waves

• lights

• reflection

• vibrations

What is a wave that moves the medium in a direction perpendicular to the wave?

• longitudinal waves

• electromagnetic waves

• transverse waves

• standing waves

What is the highest point on a transverse wave called?

• crest

• trough

• compression

• rarefaction

What is the lowest point on a transverse wave called?

• crest

• trough

• compression

• rarefaction

What are waves that move the medium parallel to the direction of the wave?

• transverse waves

• longitudinal waves

• standing waves

• frequency waves

What is the part of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are closely packed together?

• rarefaction

• compression

• crest

• trough