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Types of Waves

Total questions: 40

Worksheet time: 1hrs 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What type of wave moves by pushing together and spreading apart in a parallel direction to the way the wave travels?
a)
longitudinal
b)
transverse
c)
ocean 
d)
radio 
2.
What type of wave must have a medium to vibrate?
a)
Mechanical
b)
Electromagnetic
c)
Infrared
d)
Radio
3.
What type of wave can travel without a medium? It can travel through a vacuum or empty space.
a)
Mechanical
b)
Electromagnetic
c)
Longitudinal
d)
Seismic 
4.
What is another word we use to describe empty space?
a)
Medium
b)
Vacuum
c)
Water
d)
Speed
5.
What do we call the vibrations that transfer or move energy from place to place?
a)
Waves
b)
Vibrations
c)
Medium
d)
Force
6.
What do we call a material through which waves can travel? It can be a solid, liquid, or gas.
a)
Medium
b)
Vacuum
c)
Vibrations
d)
Amplitude
7.
What do we call a wave where the particles move back and forth perpendicular to the direction the wave travels?
a)
Transverse
b)
Longitudinal
c)
Sound
d)
Primary Seismic
8.
Which one of the following is an example of a mechanical wave?
a)
radio
b)
seismic
c)
infrared
d)
ultraviolet
9.
Which one of the following is an example of an electromagnetic wave?
a)
ocean
b)
seismic
c)
sound
d)
ultraviolet
10.

What measures the number of waves that pass a point in a certain amount of time?

a)

Frequency

b)

Wavelength

c)

Amplitude

d)

Speed

11.
What measures the distance a wave travels in a certain amount of time, wavelength times frequency?
a)
Speed
b)
Frequency
c)
Amplitude
d)
Wavelength
12.

What measures the distance from the crest on one wave to the crest on the very next wave?

a)

Frequency

b)

Wavelength

c)

Amplitude

d)

Speed

13.

What measures the distance from the crest to the mid point or the mid point to the trough, height of the wave?

a)

Frequency

b)

Amplitude

c)

Wavelength

d)

Speed

14.
What is responsible for the pitch of a note or the color of light (ROYGBV)? Whether it is a high pitch or a low pitch?
a)
Frequency
b)
Amplitude
c)
Wavelength
d)
Speed
15.
What is responsible for the volume of the sound or the brightness of the light?
a)
Frequency
b)
Amplitude
c)
Wavelength
d)
Speed
16.
What do you call location A on the diagram?
a)
Rarefaction
b)
Compression
c)
Amplitude
d)
Wavelength
17.
What do you call location B on the diagram?
a)
Rarefaction
b)
Compression
c)
Amplitude
d)
Wavelength
18.
What do you call location C on the diagram?
a)
Rarefaction
b)
Compression
c)
Amplitude
d)
Wavelength
19.
What do you call location A?
a)
Crest
b)
Trough
c)
Amplitude
d)
Wavelength
20.
What do you call location B?
a)
Crest
b)
Trough
c)
Amplitude
d)
Wavelength
21.
What do you call location C?
a)
Crest
b)
Trough
c)
Amplitude
d)
Wavelength
22.
What do you call location D?
a)
Crest
b)
Trough
c)
Amplitude
d)
Wavelength
23.

What do you call the the bending of waves caused by a change in their speed as they pass from one medium to another.

a)

Transmission

b)

Refraction

c)

Reflection

d)

Absorption

24.
What do you call bouncing back of a wave when it meets a surface or boundary that does not absorb the entire wave’s energy.
a)
Transmission
b)
Refraction
c)
Reflection
d)
Absorption
25.

What do you call it when waves pass through a given point or medium.

a)

Transmission

b)

Refraction

c)

Reflection

d)

Absorption

26.
What do you call it when waves don't pass through a medium but are converted to thermal energy?
a)
Transmission
b)
Refraction
c)
Reflection
d)
Absorption
27.

What do you call it when light waves are transmitted through materials (may be clear or colored material such as filters) that allow most of the light that strikes them to pass through them. Water or glass windows

a)

Transparent

b)

Translucent

c)

Opaque

28.

What do you call it when materials transmit some light, but cause it to be scattered so no clear image is seen. Frosted glass or stain glass

a)

Transparent

b)

Translucent

c)

Opaque

29.

What do you call it when materials allow no light waves to be transmitted through them. Solid materials like a wall or floor

a)

Transparent

b)

Translucent

c)

Opaque

30.

The color you see is the color that is ___.

a)

reflected

b)

absorbed

31.
If all light waves are absorbed by a medium, then what color will be perceived?
a)
White
b)
Black
c)
Red
d)
Green
32.
Which images are opaque?
a)
A & C
b)
A,C,E, & F
c)
D, E, & F
d)
A & E
33.
Smooth surfaces _______ a lot of light.
a)
reflect
b)
bend
c)
absorb
d)
twist
34.
What is a prism?
a)
a transparent object that separates white light
b)
an opaque object that appears black
c)
a translucent object
35.
Why do we see objects as white?
a)
They absorb all light
b)
They reflect all light
c)
They absorb some light and reflect some light
36.
Which tool can be used to separate white light into colors of the visible spectrum?
a)
prism
b)
wave
c)
lens
d)
mirror
37.
The bending of light as it moves from one material to another is ---
a)
refraction
b)
reflection
c)
translucent
d)
absorbed
38.
Does the scarf reflect or absorb yellow?
a)
Reflect
b)
Absorb
39.
Absorb or Reflect all colors?
a)
Absorb
b)
Reflect
40.
What do you call a tool that allows only certain colors of light to pass/transmit through them; they absorb or reflect all other colors. For example, a blue filter only transmits blue light. If the object is not blue it will look black to the viewer.
a)
prism
b)
color filter
c)
spectroscope
d)
magnetoscope

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