Waves vocabulary

The number of complete wavelengths that pass a point in a given time.

• Frequency

• Trough

• Wavelength

• Amplitude

The distance between the crest of one wave and the crest of the next wave.

• Wavelength

• Amplitude

• Frequency

• Wave

The lowest point of a wave

• Trough

• Wave

• Crest

• Longitudinal Wave

The height of a wave

• Amplitude

• Crest

• Frequency

• Wavelength

A disturbance that transfers energy from that transfers energy from place to place.

• Wave

• Crest

• Compression

• Hertz

The highest point of a wave.

• Crest

• Trough

• Hertz

• Medium

A type of seismic wave that compresses and expands.

• P Wave

• S Wave

• Crest

• Refraction

The part of a wave where the particles of the medium are close together

• Compression

• Rarefraction

• Diffraction

• Trough

A wave that moves the medium in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the wave travels.

• Transverse Wave

• Longitudinal Wave

• P Wave

• S Wave

The bending of a wave as it passes at an angle from one medium to another.

• Refraction

• Diffraction

• Reflection

• Compression