Occur when the disturbance is at a right angle to the direction the wave is moving 

Ex: Heat and light waves

• Transverse wave

• Longitudinal wave

Waves where the disturbance moves in the same direction as the wave.

Ex: Sound wave

• Transverse wave

• Longitudinal wave

the distance from crest (top) to crest (top) or from trough (bottom) to trough (bottom)

• Amplitude

• Frequency

• Rarefaction

• Wavelength

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

the length from rest to crest

• Amplitude

• Frequency

• Rarefaction

• Wavelength

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

the number of waves that pass a fixed point in unit time

• Amplitude

• Frequency

• Rarefaction

• Wavelength

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-1

The top of the wave

• Crest

• Compression

• Rarefaction

• Trough

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

The bottom of the wave

• Crest

• Compression

• Rarefaction

• Trough

region in a longitudinal wave where the particles are closest together

• Crest

• Compression

• Rarefaction

• Trough

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

region in a longitudinal wave where the particles are farthest apart

• Crest

• Compression

• Rarefaction

• Trough

The distance between one point on a compression and the corresponding point on the next compression in a sound wave

• Wavelength

• Compression

• Rarefaction

• Frenquency