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Waves

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which wave has a longer wavelength?

a)

Wave 1

b)

Wave 2

c)

Wave 3

d)

Wave 4

2.

Which wave has a larger frequency?

a)

Wave 1

b)

Wave 2

c)

Wave 3

d)

Wave 4

3.

What type of waves are light waves?

a)

Electromagnetic

b)

Mechanical

4.

How do light waves travel?

a)

Straight lines

b)

U.V. rays

c)

Microwaves

d)

X-rays

e)

Radio waves

5.

What kind of waves are sound waves?

a)

Mechanical

b)

Electromagnetic

6.

What kind of waves do sound waves travel in?

a)

Longitudinal

b)

Transverse

7.

How are sound waves drawn?

a)

Transverse

b)

Longitudinal

8.

What is the frequency of this wave?

a)

2

b)

4

9.

What is a compression?

a)

The part of a longitudinal wave that is squeezed together

b)

The part of a longitudinal wave that is spread apart

10.

What is a crest?

a)

The highest point of a wave

b)

The lowest point of a wave

c)

Where the wave would be when there is no disturbance

d)

The length from one wave to the same spot in the next

11.

What is a rest point?

a)

The highest point of a wave

b)

The lowest point of a wave

c)

The point a wave would be if there were no disturbance

d)

The length from one point of a wave to another

12.

What is a light wave?

a)

Visible light

b)

radio waves

c)

UV

d)

Electromagnetic waves

e)

Mechanical waves

13.

What colors are being reflected in the color black?

a)

All

b)

None

14.

What colors are being reflected in the color white?

a)

all

b)

none

15.

What color has a higher frequency?

a)

Red

b)

Purple

16.

What color has a lower frequency?

a)

Red

b)

Purple

17.

Which wave moves left and right?

a)

Longitudinal

b)

Transverse

c)

Electromagnetic

18.

Which wave moves up and down?

a)

Transverse

b)

longitudinal

c)

electromagnetic

19.

Which wave moves in straight lines/rays.

a)

transverse

b)

longitudinal

c)

electromagnetic

20.

which wave is the safest to interact with?

a)

Visible light

b)

AM

c)

Gamma

21.

Which wave is the most dangerous to interact with?

a)

visible light

b)

Gamma rays

c)

AM

22.

What colors are projected by visible light?

a)

the rainbow

b)

light blue

c)

yellow

d)

red

e)

purple

23.

What color absorbs light?

a)

black

b)

white

c)

red

d)

orange

e)

other

24.

what color shirt would you NOT want to wear on a warm day?

a)

white

b)

black

c)

red

d)

orange

e)

other

25.

What color WOULD you want to wear on a warm day?

a)

black

b)

red

c)

orange

d)

white

e)

other