Wave Behaviors & Interactions

True or False: Sound waves travel faster through solids than through liquids.

• True

• False

True or false: Sound waves travel faster through gases than through solids.

• True

• False

True or False: Sound waves travel fastest through liquids and the slowest through solids.

• False

• True

Light travels fastest through a ______ because ______

• air; the particles are spread farthest apart

• glass; the particles are closest together

• vacuum; there are no particles

• water; the particles are fluid

The __________ most greatly affects the speed of a sound wave

• the amplitude of the sound wave

• the properties of the medium the sound is travelling through

• the frequency of the sound wave

• the intensity of the medium the sound is travelling through

Which type of wave CANNOT be transferred through outerspace

• light

• gamma rays

• microwaves

• sound

Which is true about the speed of light versus the speed of sound?

• light waves travel slower than sound waves

• both light and sound travel at the same exact speed

• sound waves travel slower than light waves

• there is no way to ever know

in refraction: the more a light wave bends, the ________ it is travelling

• slower

• faster

Which material does light pass through the slowest?

• air

• water

• glass

• diamond

What type of wave interaction is shown?

• diffraction

• reflection

• refraction

• interference