Behavior of Waves

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

• Medium

• Wave

• Compression

• Rarefaction

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The direction in which a transverse wave travels is 

• the same direction as the disturbance

• from the disturbance downward

• at right angles to the disturbance

• toward the disturbance

Which statement best describes a wave medium? 

• the material through which a wave travels

• a point halfway between the crest and the trough of a wave

• the distance from one wave crest to another

• the speed at which waves travel in water

Which statement describes the relationship between frequency and wavelength?

• When frequency increases, wavelength increases

• When frequency increases, wavelength decreases

• When frequency increases, wavelength remains constant

• When frequency increases, wavelength varies unpredictably

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What type of wave behavior is pictured above?

• Refraction

• Reflection

• Absorption

• Diffraction

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The bouncing back of a wave when it hits a surface through which it can NOT pass is called —

• rarefaction

• reflection

• diffraction

• refraction

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What type of wave behavior is pictured above?

• Refraction

• Reflection

• Absorption

• Diffraction

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Match the following

• transmission

• occurs when a wave bends around an object

• refraction

• occurs when the energy from a wave is moved through and object without being absorbed or scattered

• reflection

• occurs when a wave is bounced off of an object

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Which type of wave is pictured here?

• Longitudinal

• Transverse

• Light 

• Electromagnetic

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The black rectangles represent light waves.  What is happening to them as they move from left to right? 

• They are being reflected. 

• They are being refracted.

• They are being transmitted.

• They are being absorbed.

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