Waves and Sound Review 2023

A substance that a wave can travel through like water, air and a slinky.

• Crest
• Water
• Large
• Medium

A disturbance or vibration that carries energy from one place to another.

• Mechanical
• Crest
• Wave speed
• Wave

A wave in which energy put into the wave moves in the same direction as the wave.

• Longitudinal Wave
• Transverse Wave

When you talk, you are making a mechanical wave.

• True
• False

The number of waves that pass in a certain amount of time is called....

• Frequency
• Wave length
• Amplitude
• Crest

The height of a wave from its rest position to the top of the wave is called....

• Crest
• Wavelength
• Frequency
• Amplitude

The distance from one point on the wave to the exact same point on the next wave is called.....

• Trough
• Amplitude
• Wave Length
• Frequency

If the frequency of the wave gets higher the wavelength of the waves gets.....

• longer
• higher
• shorter
• faster

The bending of a wave as the wave passes between two substances in which the speed of the wave differs

• A. refraction
• B. reflection
• C. resonance
• D. standing wave

Can you hear sounds in a vacuum?

• Yes
• No