Aferguson Waves

What is a repeating disturbance or vibration that transfers or moves energy from place to place?  

• Medium
• Wave
• Compression
• Rarefaction

What is the name of a material in which waves, like sound waves, seismic waves, and waves in a slinky can travel?

• Vacuum
• Medium
• Mechanical
• Space

Which of these waves CAN travel in a vacuum (empty space, no medium)?

• sound wave
• radio wave
• compressional wave
• water wave

Which of these CANNOT travel in empty space (with no medium)?

• electromagnetic waves
• mechanical

All waves carry

• energy
• light 
• matter
• particles

What kind of wave is pictured below?

• compressional wave
• transverse wave
• sound wave
• mechanical wave

What do we call the  top of a transverse wave (label 3 seen in the image)?

• crest
• trough
• wavelength
• amplitude

What do we call the bottom of a transverse wave (label 4 in the image)?

• crest
• trough
• wavelength
• amplitude

What kind of wave moves at right angles to the direction of the wave?

• compressional waves
• mechanical waves
• transverse waves
• ultraviolet rays

What do we call the part of a compressional wave that is when the waves are squeezed together?

• compression
• rarefaction
• crest
• trough