Topic 1 Lessons 1-2 Vocabulary

What is a disturbance that transfers energy from place to place?

• Mechanical wave

• Medium

• Wave

• Frequency

Which type of wave requires a medium through which to travel?

• Electromagnetic radiation

• Mechanical wave

• Transverse wave

• Longitudinal wave

What is the material through which a wave travels called?

• Medium

• Amplitude

• Wavelength

• Frequency

What is the energy transferred through space by electromagnetic waves called?

• Mechanical wave

• Electromagnetic radiation

• Transverse wave

• Longitudinal wave

Which type of wave moves the medium at right angles to the direction in which the wave travels?

• Longitudinal wave

• Transverse wave

• Standing wave

• Mechanical wave

What is the height of a transverse wave from the center to a crest or a trough called?

• Wavelength

• Frequency

• Amplitude

• Reflection

Which type of wave moves the medium in a direction parallel to the direction in which the wave travels?

• Transverse wave

• Longitudinal wave

• Standing wave

• Mechanical wave

What is the distance between two corresponding parts of a wave, such as the distance between two crests, called?

• Frequency

• Amplitude

• Wavelength

• Reflection

What is the number of complete waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time called?

• Frequency

• Amplitude

• Wavelength

• Reflection

What is the bouncing back of a wave when it hits a surface through which it cannot pass called?

• Refraction

• Diffraction

• Absorption

• Reflection