Unit 4: Wave Vocabulary

What is the material or substance through which a wave travels?

• Crest

• Medium

• Trough

• Amplitude

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

What is the highest point of a wave?

• Trough

• Wavelength

• Crest

• Frequency

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

What is the lowest point of a wave, directly opposite of the crest?

• Amplitude

• Trough

• Medium

• Wave

What type of wave has the motion of the medium at a right angle to the direction the wave travels?

• Longitudinal wave

• Transverse wave

• Frequency

• Amplitude

What type of wave has the medium moving back and forth in the same direction as the wave itself?

• Transverse wave

• Wavelength

• Longitudinal wave

• Crest

What is the distance between one crest to the next crest or one trough to the next trough in a wave?

• Frequency

• Amplitude

• Wavelength

• Medium

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

• Frequency

• Amplitude

• Crest

• Trough

What is the height of a wave from the middle line to the crest or from the middle line to the trough?

• Wavelength

• Amplitude

• Medium

• Wave

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

What is a disturbance or vibration that transfers energy from one place to another?

• Wave

• Crest

• Trough

• Frequency

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

Fill in the blank: A type of wave that doesn’t need a medium to travel through; it can move through space is called an __________.

• electromagnetic wave

• sound wave

• seismic wave

• mechanical wave

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-1