Review for Friday's Quiz - Wave Behaviors and Interference

Which best defines reflection?

• The bouncing of a wave off a boundary or object

• The bending of a wave as it enters a new medium

• The spreading of a wave around boundaries or objects

• The overlapping of waves

What best defines refraction?

• The bouncing of a wave off a boundary or object

• The bending of a wave as it enters a new medium

• The spreading of a wave around an obstacle

• The overlapping of waves

What best defines diffraction?

• The bouncing of a wave off an object or boundary

• The spreading of a wave around an obstacle

• The bending of a wave as it enters a new medium

• The overlapping of waves

What are echos an example of?

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Diffraction

What is the picture an example of?

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Diffraction

What is the picture an example of?

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Diffraction

The picture shows a prism. What property of waves causes the light to look like a rainbow as it exits the prism?

• Reflection

• Refraction

• Diffraction

• absorption

• diffraction

• reflection

• refraction

• transmission

• absorption

• diffraction

• reflection

• refraction

• transmission

What is a medium?

• something between a small and a large?
• the substance through which a wave can travel
• a pattern of vibration that simulates when a wave is standing still
• the distance from any point on a wave to an identical point on the next wave