Week 10 Vocabulary Practice

The process where an object is made to vibrate at its natural frequency by absorbing the energy of another object that is vibrating at the same frequency.

• Reflection

• Resonance

• Interference

• Diffraction

When two or more waves combine to form a new wave.

• Reflection

• Resonance

• Interference

• Diffraction

When a wave strikes an object and goes into it (is absorbed.), energy from the wave gets converted to thermal energy.

• Reflection

• Absorption

• Refraction

• Diffraction

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When an object causes a wave to change direction and bend around it.

• Reflection

• Absorption

• Refraction

• Diffraction

The bending of waves caused by a change in its speed as it moves from one medium through another.

• Reflection

• Absorption

• Refraction

• Diffraction

When a wave strikes an object and bounces off of it.

• Reflection

• Absorption

• Refraction

• Diffraction

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The ability to cause change.

• Matter

• Eukaryotic

• Energy

• Friction

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Energy in motion.

• Elastic Potential Energy

• Kinetic Energy

• Chemical Potential Energy

• Gravitational Potential Energy

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Stored energy

• Kinetic Energy

• Required Energy

• Secondary Energy

• Potential Energy

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Light waves or any waves capable of transferring energy through a vacuum are an example of...

• Compressional Waves

• Mechanical Waves

• Electromagnetic Waves

• Sound Waves

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