QUIZ: Wave Properties

What is frequency?

What is an oscillation or disturbance that travels through space called?

In what medium would you find a surface wave?

• Air
• Land
• Water
• Space

All waves carry ______________________.

• water
• light
• energy
• sound

Waves are disturbances that transfer _________________ from one place to another.

• matter
• energy
• heat
• light

What is the passing of a wave through a material?

• absorption
• transmission
• reflection
• refraction

How do particles in a surface wave move? Select TWO

• Parallel Only
• Perpendicular Only
• Both Parallel and Perpendicular
• Circular

Provide an example of a surface wave.

What are examples of wave properties? Select ALL that apply?

• Amplitude
• Sound
• Height
• Crest
• Frequency

The wavelength of a wave _____________________ as frequency _________________________.

• increases, increases
• increases, decreases
• decreases, increases
• decreases, decreases