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WorksheetsWaves Vocabulary
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
A disturbance that repeats regularly in space and time and that transmits energy from one place to another with no transfer of matter.
waves
wave speed
frequency
A measurement of how much sound energy passes through a certain area in a certain amount of time as it spreads out from the source.
Hertz
sound intensity
transverse wave
A unit of measure that indicates the relative intensity of a sound.
rarefaction
compression
decibel
the wave's displacement from its state of rest.
amplitude
wavelength
wave speed
the amount of wave cycles per second
Hertz
transverse wave
rarefaction
the length of one wave cycle
wave speed
wavelength
wave
the number of vibrations per second the ear receives, otherwise known as the sound's pitch.
transverse wave
compression
frequency
transfers energy through compressions and rarefactions in the material through which the wave travels.
transverse waves
longitudinal waves
frequency
the motion of the material is perpendicular to the direction that the energy travels.
wavelength
longitudinal waves
transverse waves
the region of the wave in which the material through which the wave is transmitted is pressed together.
compression
rarefaction
wave
the region in which the material is spread apart.
compression
rarefaction
frequency
the material in which wave energy travels.
longitudinal wave
transverse wave
medium
measured in meters per second (m/s)
medium
wave speed
Hertz
the scientific name for the colors of the rainbow
frequency
waves
visible light spectrum
information that supports or refutes a claim
hertz
evidence
amplitude
