Ocean Waves

What is wavelength in this image?

• 5 cm

• 10cm

• 15 cm

• 0 cm

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

What is a wave?

• a disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another.

• Any substance that a wave moves through.

• The highest point or peak of a wave

• Maximum distance the particles of a medium move from their resting positions when a wave passes through.

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

What is a crest?

• a disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another.

• The highest point or peak of a wave

• The lowest point, or valley, of a wave

• A wave that travels in the same direction as the disturbance

What is a trough?

• The lowest point, or valley, of a wave

• A wave that travels in the same direction as the disturbance

• The highest point or peak of a wave

• Wave in which particles of the medium vibrate at right angles to the direction that the wave travels

Waves transfer _________.

• Energy

• Matter

• Candy

• Boats

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

The distance between two consecutive crests.

• Wavelength

• Medium

• Frequency

• LIne of Origin

On this wave diagram, what is A?

• amplitude

• crest

• trough

• wavelength

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

On this wave diagram, what is B?

• amplitude

• crest

• trough

• wavelength

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

On this wave diagram, what is C?

• amplitude

• crest

• trough

• wavelength

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

On this wave diagram, what is D?

• amplitude

• crest

• trough

• wavelength

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1