Wave Vocabulary Quiz

How tall or short a wave is:

• Crest
• Wavelength
• Trough
• Amplitude
• Baseline

The space between two wave crests or two troughs:

• Crest
• Wavelength
• Trough
• Amplitude
• Baseline

The lowest point on a wave:

• Crest
• Wavelength
• Trough
• Amplitude
• Baseline

The highest point on a wave.

• Crest
• Wavelength
• Trough
• Amplitude
• Baseline

The part of the wave halfway in between the crest and the trough.

• Crest
• Wavelength
• Trough
• Amplitude
• Baseline

When something interrupts or changes the normal state of things:

• Disturbance
• Force
• Matter
• Propagate
• Wave property

The repeating pattern produced as a wave; the ways that waves travel or move:

• Disturbance
• Force
• Matter
• Propagate
• Wave property

How something, like light or sound, moves in a wavelike pattern, spreading out from its source:

• Disturbance
• Force
• Matter
• Propagate
• Wave property

Anything that takes up space and has weight, like air, water, or the things you can touch:

• Disturbance
• Force
• Matter
• Propagate
• Wave property

A push or a pull that makes things move or stop moving:

• Disturbance
• Force
• Matter
• Propagate
• Wave property