Waves Vocabulary

A disturbance that moves energy from one place to another

• Wave

• Frequency

• Origin

• Vacuum

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

The number of waves that pass in a given amount of time

• Amplitude

• Wavelength

• Frequency

• Pitch

Height of a wave from the origin to the crest

• Origin

• Amplitude

• Trough

• Crest

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

Length of a wave from crest to crest or trough to trough

• Refracted

• Wavelength

• Origin

• Crest

Top of the wave

• Crest

• Trough

• Origin

• Pitch

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

Bottom of the wave

• Crest

• Medium

• Trough

• Vacuum

The original position of the medium

• Medium

• Vacuum

• Absorbed

• Origin

How high or low the sound is

• Pitch

• Scattered

• Reflected

• Frequency

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

• Vacuum

• Compression

• Medium

• Rarefaction

The part of a sound wave where the particles are far apart.

• Rarefaction

• Medium

• Compression

• Absorbed