Quiz about Wave Properties

Question 1

Which of the options is the scientific explanation for a WAVE?

Accepted Answer

Any disturbance that transfers energy from place to place

Answer

Something you can surf on.

Answer

A transfer of thermal energy from one medium to another.

Answer

When molecules disperse as a result of Charles' Law

Question 2

What is a medium?

Accepted Answer

A material/matter in which a wave travels through.

Answer

Someone that talks to ghosts.

Answer

The length of a transverse wave.

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An absence of all matter

Question 3

What is the scientific definition of a vacuum?

Accepted Answer

An absence of matter.

Answer

A straw or syphon that transfers liquid when suction is applied.

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A device that cleans the floors using suction.

Question 4

Which type of wave must have a material to transfer through?

Accepted Answer

Mechanical waves

Answer

Electromagnetic radiation

Question 5

Radio waves, x-rays, and microwaves are all examples of what?

Accepted Answer

Electromagnetic radiation

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The light spectrum

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Potential energy

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1980s New Wave music

Question 6

Which of these images show a transverse wave?

Accepted Answer

Option A is correct

Answer

B.

Question 7

What wave feature is B indicating on the diagram?

Accepted Answer

crest

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trough

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amplitude

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wavelength

Question 8

What wave feature is D indicating on the diagram?

Accepted Answer

trough

Answer

crest

Answer

amplitude

Answer

wavelength

Question 9

What wave feature is G indicating on the diagram?

Accepted Answer

source of energy

Answer

crest

Answer

trough

Answer

amplitude

Question 10

What wave feature is C and E indicating on the diagram?

Accepted Answer

resting position

Answer

crest

Answer

amplitude

Answer

wavelength

Question 11

What term does the following sentence describe?

The distance between the highest point of a wave crest and the resting position of the wave is the _________.

Accepted Answer

amplitude

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frequency

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trough

Answer

resting position

Question 12

Which of these images show a longitudinal wave?

Accepted Answer

Option B is correct

Answer

A.

Question 13

True or false?

A transverse wave travels perpendicular (at 90 degree/right angles) to the direction of the wave source's energy?

Accepted Answer

True

Answer

False

Question 14

Which wave travels in the SAME DIRECTION as the vibrations that are produced my the source?

Accepted Answer

Longitudinal

Answer

Transverse

Question 15

What type of wave is shown in this image?

Accepted Answer

Longitudinal wave

Answer

Transverse wave

Question 16

What type of wave does this image display?

Accepted Answer

Transverse wave

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Longitudinal wave

Question 17

You place a ping pong ball in a wave machine that is producing transverse waves. Which of these statements is true about the ball?

Accepted Answer

The ball will bob up and down and remain in the same position.

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The ball will travel in the direction of the wave

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The ball will travel against the direction of the wave.

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The ball will sink below the surface of the water.

Question 18

Fill in the blank:

The distance a wave travels from crest to crest in know as the _________.

Accepted Answer

Wave length

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Frequency

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trough

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refraction

Question 19

What is letter A indicating?

Accepted Answer

Wave compression

Answer

Wave rarefaction

Question 20

What is letter B indicating?

Accepted Answer

Wave rarefaction

Answer

Wave compression

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