Unit 8 Waves Vocabulary

The top of the wave is the

• Amplitude

• Wavelength

• Crest

• Trough

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The bottom of the wave is called the

• Amplitude

• Wavelength

• Crest

• Trough

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Frequency is

• How many waves are in a cycle

• The length of the wave

• How long it takes for one wave to pass

• The speed of the wave

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The length of one complete wave

• Amplitude

• Wavelength

• Crest

• Trough

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The distance between a wave’s crests or troughs.

• signal

• wavelength

• encode

• analog

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Material through which a wave travels like air, liquids, solids, or vacuum of space, is known as:

• Amplitude

• Frequency

• Medium

• Wave

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a wave in which the matter moves in a pattern parallel to the direction that the wave travels

• transverse wave

• longitudinal wave

• surface wave

• wave

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a wave in which the matter moves in a pattern perpendicular to the direction that the wave travels

• wave cycle

• transverse wave

• longitudinal wave

• surface wave

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one complete motion of the repeating pattern of a wave

• surface wave

• wave

• wave cycle

• longitudinal wave

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a disturbance that carries energy from place to place

• mechanical wave

• wave cycle

• model

• wave

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