Physical Science Chapter 15

Matter through which a wave travels is called___________.

• Waves

• Friction

• Medium

• Energy

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Waves that require a Medium is called________.

• Electromagnetic Waves

• Mechanical Waves

• Transfer

• Energy

Changing electric and magnetic fields are called_______.

• None of these

• Longitudinal Waves

• Medium

• Electromagnetic Waves

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Waves in which the motion of the particles are perpendicular to the motion of the wave is called______________.

• Transverse Waves

• Friction

• Waves

• Springs

Waves that cause the particles in a medium to vibrate parallel to the direction of wave motion.

• crest

• particles

• Longitudinal waves

• Wave

High point of a transverse wave

• Crests

• Troughs

• waves

• Surface

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Low point of a traverse wave

• None Of These

• Long waves

• rest

• Troughs

The greatest distance that particles displaced form their normal resting position is called_____________.

• Crest

• Amplitude

• period

• Frequency

The distance from one crest to the nextor from one troughs to the next

• Wave length

• Amplitude

• Period

• All of the above

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The time required for one complete vibration of a particle in a medium.

• Frequency

• Science

• I Don't Know

• Period

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