Waves Vocabulary

What is energy?

• moving energy

• stored energy

• renewable energy

• The ability to do work.

What is transferred from place to place by waves?

• matter

• energy

• particles

• waves

Which wave in the diagram has the greatest wavelength?

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4

Which of the following can sound travel through?

• solid
• liquid
• gas
• all of the above

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

A mechanical wave cannot travel through...

• a vacuum(empty space).
• water.
• air. 
• glass.

Without matter, sound waves could not travel.

• True
• False

A disturbance that travels through a medium as a longitudinal wave

• sound
• wavelength
• pitch
• frequency

All waves carry

• energy
• light 
• matter
• particles

What do we call the part of a compressional wave that is spread a part?

• compression
• rarefaction
• crest
• trough