The Motion of Waves

The ability to do work is ...

• job

• school

• energy

• effort

Any substance that waves move through is called? 

• solid

• liquid

• gas

• medium

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The number of times something repeats within a fixed period, such as a number of cycles per second, is called? 

• frequency

• frequent

• amplitude

• infrequent

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As a wave moves through a medium, what does it carry? 

• a football

• a backpack

• nothing

• energy

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Sound can travel through space.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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Light can travel through space.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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Waves that could happen in everyday life include...

• plucking a guitar

• ripples in a pond

• Tsunami

• All of the examples

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Changing the frequency can change the wavelength because they are related. Think of the simulation you explored.

• TRUE

• FALSE

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The distance between two corresponding points on a wave is a called?

• wavy

• waves

• wavelength

• wave goodbye

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The height of a wave from rest to crest, or from rest to trough, is called? 

• crest

• wave

• trough

• amplitude

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