Sound Waves

What is transported by a wave?

• air

• energy

• matter

• particles

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Examine the wave.

Which region on this wave would correspond to rarefaction?

• W

• X

• Y

• Z

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What type of waves might experience rarefaction?

• rope rays

• x-rays

• Sound Waves

• infrared rays

What is something natural that Sound cannot travel through?

• Water
• Air
• Liquids
• outer Space

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A disturbance that travels through a medium as a longitudinal wave

• sound
• wavelength
• pitch
• frequency

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A part in a longitudinal wave where the particles are spread apart

• compression
• rarefaction
• crest
• trough

A wave in which the vibration is in the same direction as that in which the wave is traveling; sound waves

• longitudinal wave
• ocean wave
• transverse wave
• mechanical wave

The part of a longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are close together.

• rarefaction
• compression
• crest
• trough

Sound is produced by -----

• Heat energy

• Low temperatures

• Vibrations

• Friction

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Maximum pressure change gives us the ________ of the sound wave

• Frequency

• Amplitude

• Wavelength

• Time period